This blog post pretty much sums up the implications for mobile industry of Nokia buying out rest of the stake in symbian and making it royalty free and open source.
Nokia had acquired Trolltech sometime back. I was assuming they would port Trolltech QT interface to their symbian platforms (S60, S40...) in addition to their tablet linux platform to provide similar look and feel interface across all their platforms and devies. Now that Symbian Foundation and Nokia are planning to merge symbian core OS and S60 UI platform as an all-in-one platform, there is no more differentiation across the vendors based on symbian UI platforms. So that throws up an interesting question - what are Nokia's plans with the Trolltech QT acquisition?
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