EWeek: "Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC and Panasonic unveil seven new Linux-based smart phones for the LiMo Foundation."
Here‘s a quote from a Forbes article: "Forbes.com: What was your reaction to the Symbian news?
Morgan Gillis: Directionally, it's exactly right for the industry. It is bringing open technology and open governance into the mobile sector so that applications developers and content providers can write much more efficiently for handsets. It will set off a wave of innovation. Philosophically, that is what LiMo believes too...There is a naive view that open is always good and closed is always bad, but within the industry, the governance model and the licensing approach matter. We are pursuing a strategy [that] we call collaborative source. It's not quite the same as open source and definitely not proprietary. LiMo members are required to share fixes and optimizations they create individually. That's really important as a mechanism for removing fragmentation. In addition, companies working within LiMo agree not to assert patents against each other. This protects our smaller companies. Between our members, we have 300,000 patents currently.
It's not known yet whether Symbian's patent license contains all that. This is also distinct from Google's approach. Google's license does not require licensees to share anything with others."
