“The Canada-based smartphone maker, known for the private
handling of its mobile device software business, now has decided to
open its doors gradually to the developer community, with its
upcoming BlackBerry 10 Native SDK starting the wave of several open
source codes.
“‘One of the biggest complaints I heard when I joined the
company was from developers who said you know I can?t use open
source on Blackberry OS and that means it takes longer to write
code for Blackberry and makes it more expensive,’ said Alec
Saunders, VP of Developer Relations at RIM. ‘You know what, we?re
super committed to open source.’
“Saunders added that the SDK would sport open source, multimedia
and general-purpose libraries, gaming frameworks, scripting
languages, physics engines, and code samples and snippets.”