How is the LiMo Foundation initiative different than Symbian Foundation’s?
LiMo was founded at the beginning of 2007 in order to bring open and collaborative governance to the mobile industry in order to unlock innovation throughout the value system and bring much better propositions to mobile consumers everywhere. Our simple formula has attracted very rapid industry engagement – 50 companies including 5 tier one operators managing half a billion subscribers and 16 handsets have been shipped to consumers. The most important difference is LiMo’s unique Collaborative Source strategy, under which the handset OS is developed using royalty free contributions within an IP safe harbor, which protects against hostile patent action, manages fragmentation and allows commercial innovation to thrive on top of the platform.
