[part 4 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry]
Open source in mobile goes far beyond the confines of Linux-based operating systems for mobile phones. Examples are Sun’s Java, Motorola’s MIDP3 project, Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative, Symbian’s use of open source, Adobe’s project Tamarin, Nokia’s S60 web […]

[part 3 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry]
Linux is by far the software most commonly associated with (and often mis-identified with) open source and free software, where free refers to liberty, not costs. However the access to source code, ability to modify or redistribute, or […]

[part 2 of the series on five traits of open source and its impact in the mobile industry]
Open source is in many ways the antithesis of corporate software development. The culture and dynamics of OSS development are defined by the nuances of a software community collaborating over the Internet. A community is typically formed by a combination of paid-for, pro-bono and […]

[Over the next two weeks leading to the OSiM conference, I ‘ll be looking at five traits which characterise open source and its impact in the mobile industry, from community culture, to what open source means for mobile Linux, browsers and Java.]
Open source software is one of the most hyped, misunderstood, feared and high impact phenomena […]

One day, sometime during the production of OSiM 2007, I looked up from my desk and found myself in the most extraordinary privileged position.
In researching the conference, I had spoken to almost one hundred individuals across the mobile and PC industries. I had first approached these individuals – strategists, evangelists, CTOs, […]