After some Nokia bashing after the interview where they said OpenSource was not ready for the telco/entreprise business, today it was announced that , together with Morotola, Sony-Ericsson, NTT and other telco companies they will start developing a common UI framework that will be released under the Eclipse Public License ( which means it is opensource, royalties-free and less restrictive for companies when it comes to copyleft).

You can read more about this in OpenGarden.

I guess competition is always a good thing, right? So excluding the elites phone and bussiness-oriented (WM, BlackBerries and Palm), there will be Android vs Symbian, and both being OpenSource, that’s a good outcome either way.