Why OpenW?

This project was started to participate in Nokia Open C Challenge.
Originally I wanted to port "Haali reader" - famous free reader for WM. But after I realized how different Symbian UI model is, after discovering all those cleanup stacks, leaves, two-phase constructions, and such, I thought it would be simpler to create wrapper for Win32, than to rewrite all UI and "port" (by rewriting most of) other parts.
Then I thought that there are many Win32 programmers like me, who want to program for Symbian, but do not want to dig that deep. Also it's always nice to have a possibility for "multiplatform" application. Of course, in Symbian you will need to use Symbian-specific classes for telephony, SMS, and all, but still, "core" will be multiplatform.

So I started OpenW.