Well, in six months there is another new entrant to the mobile phone
OS coming along - OS X. Of course, I doubt that Apple will make this
available externally, but almost all of the code is presumably
available through the Darwin open source project. I haven't looked
at the license recently, but I would think that most Unix
distributions could also form the basis for product.
How did the BSD derivative OS fair in your research? Was cost a major
factor?
Eric Hildum
EricHildum@earthlink.net
On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> I found this bit interesting:
>
> [Nokia's] only alternative, in practice, is to go Linux, which
> it is
> of course experimenting with, but it's still not an easy path
> to go.
>
> Having investigated (and even mucked with) the internals of several
> OSes, I can say that Linux itself, even these days, is far from a
> beautiful piece of work. If they consider Symbian even worse (which
> isn't clear), that speaks volumes.
>
> cjs
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