According to a CNET story published last week, Nokia underwrote the Minimo project, an effort to create a standards-compliant browser for embedded use by shrinking Mozilla. The worldwide mobile phone leader currently uses the commercial Opera browser in most of its browser-equipped products.

LinuxDevices.com earlier published an Overview of the Minimo Project by project leaders Doug Turner and Chris Hofmann, in which the two stated, “We have some partners that sound very interested in funding continued development, porting, distribution, and integration of Minimo into products, so we are very encouraged about things on the horizon.”

Turner and Hofmann also said that tests showed Minimo to be positioned favorably, compared to Opera and embedded versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, in tests involving standards compliance and resource requirements.

The CNET story cites anonymous sources tying Nokia to the Minimo Project, and quotes a Nokia official saying the company may be involved in the project, given its interest in open source technology.

The story also includes extensive background on Mozilla, before concluding that funded development projects could provide an important revenue stream for the Mozilla Project, which was reconstituted as a non-profit organization after America Online laid off its Mozilla engineering team in July of 2003.

Read CNET story about Nokia funding the Minimo Project

 
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