RIM chief says BlackBerry 10 could be licensed by handset rivals

Research in Motion’s upcoming operating system, BlackBerry 10, could soon be made available for non-BlackBerry devices, according to the company’s chief executive Thorsten Heins.

Heins told Bloomberg that QNX, the software that BlackBerry 10 is based on, is “already licensed across the automotive sector… we could do that with BlackBerry 10 if we chose to.”