Good comment! But the intention is for the Symbian Foundation to continue to have high quality criteria: software won’t be admitted into the Foundation Codeline (no matter where it comes from) unless it meets various submission guidelines.

That’s what good integration management is all about – you need to be a very tough gatekeeper, not letting in any software, regardless of the reputation or the seniority of the submitter, unless the rules are followed. To break these rules may give you short term peace, but it will give you long term misery.

I agree with that Symbian has always shipped quality code. You can be proud of that, really. However, you will now have to integrate other parties’ work, too, like Nokia, UIQ, etc. that will eventually dilute the quality of your work, I’m afraid. And since you won’t own the code anymore (will you?) you can’t do much about it – it WILL happen. I still hope, though, that the new code will still be very robust, well-designed and less prone to be fragmented than your competitors’ code. You have responsibility on assuring that.