TY - JOUR T1 - Open is the New Closed: How the Mobile Industry uses Open Source to Further Commercial Agendas JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Andreas Constantinou AB - Openness is a much-misunderstood word. It represents a kind of good-will moniker to which people attach an impressive variety of definitions: open source code, open standards, open handsets, openness as in transparency, shared roadmaps, open application programming interfaces (APIs), open route to market, and so on. It is a very forgiving term as far as definitions go. One of the mobile industry's favourite facets of openness is open source code. Since 2007, tens of mobile industry giants and consortia have embraced open source in some form or other: the Symbian Foundation, LiMo Foundation, Google's Android, Nokia's Qt, Apple's WebKit and Nokia+Intel's Meego are the initiatives that have hit the industry front pages. On the surface, these initiatives use open source licenses, but that only tells half the story. Behind the scenes, Google, Apple, Nokia and others use restrictive governance models and control points that effectively detract the very freedoms that open source licensing is meant to bestow. This discusses the many forms that governance models can take, and how they are used in the mobile industry to tightly control the roadmap and application of open source projects. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/330 IS - March 2010 U1 - VisionMobile Andreas Constantinou is the Research Director at VisionMobile where he oversees the company's research, advisory and industry mapping projects. He has ten years experience in research, development and strategy in mobile, specialising in the handset ecosystem, software strategy and open source. Andreas has worked on several product and marketing strategy projects for clients including Sony Ericsson, RIM, Microsoft, France Telecom, T-Mobile, OMTP, Qualcomm, ST Ericsson, Gemalto and Trolltech and authored numerous research reports for analyst firms Informa, Ovum and ARCchart. Andreas also teaches the Mobile Open Source workshop, part of VisionMobile's 360 degree training courses on complex industry sectors. Prior to founding VisionMobile, Andreas spent 3 years at Orange's Research and Innovation division, including serving as a technology lead for the Orange-Microsoft relationship. His interests include uncovering under-the-radar industry trends and pursuing human-centric design. When not hopping on planes, Andreas spends his time in Athens, Greece. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Image and Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK. ER -