When Nokia recently acquired Symbian Limited — the developer of the Symbian mobile OS licensed by Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson — you could be excused for thinking Nokia was moving to pull the rug out from under its competitors.But it ain’t so, as InfoWorld’s Tom Yager is quick to point out in today’s Ahead of the Curve blog. “It turns out that Nokia’s not the latest antitrust bad boy. Put a cape on Nokia, because it is a champion of corporate trust, or whatever anti-antitrust works out to be. Symbian Limited’s engineers will wear Nokia badges, but every line of code they crank out will be turned over to Nokia’s competitors, and later, to the world.”With the purchase, Nokia simultaneously established the nonprofit Symbian Foundation, which effectively owns the Symbian OS. “Nokia bought Symbian,” Yager writes, “with the stated long-term intention of giving the OS away as proper open source, a detail that has drawn the focus of observers who see the Symbian Foundation as a bulwark against Google’s Open Handset Alliance. “Whether the Symbian Foundation can put Symbian OS on the space age trajectory is an open question,” Yager says.What’s your opinion? Technology Industry