[dusanbab]

Back in 2008/9 I was a co-founder at a company (Red Five Labs) that created a .NET Compact Framework runtime for Symbian OS (featured on most Nokia & Samsung smartphones at the time). We got to a .NET CF 2.0 level of compatibility.

It was a venture-backed startup out of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Although we wrote the runtime ourselves, we made extensive use of some of the mono libraries until we were able to rewrite most of these optimized for Symbian.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100112091803/http://www.redfiv...

[matthewwarren]

Nice! Thanks for the info. I think that an update to the post is due, turns out that I missed quite a few!

[voltagex_]

What happens to that code once the company disappears?

[dusanbab]

Unfortunately it went with it. There were some superficial talks about it winding up in the Symbian Foundation, but those didn’t materialize.

And yes, it probably points to a major problem with a small company developing critical framework or tool components when the codebase isn’t participating in an open source license.

There were many mistakes made along the way, in retrospect.

[jeremycarter]

I remember this! Good memories