Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims

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Symbian already on many phones.

To me, one of the big reasons why Symbian succeeded is its corporate backing. Psion, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and a whole bunch of other companies officially support, develop and contribute to the Symbian platform. They sell it, make money from it, write and distribute software and upgrades. This is a rock solid commercial business model which is absent in Linux.

Yes it's great that Linux runs on everything from supercomputers to mosquito-sized embedded devices, but where's the commercial backing? Would you buy a phone from Nokia which is unsupported - if they just give you an SDK and ask you to write your own code for it?

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