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The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL or the Labs), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, and PalmSource, today announced that PalmSource has joined OSDL as a founding member of the Labs' new Mobile Linux Initiative. PalmSource is the provider of Palm OS, a leading operating system powering next generation phones and mobile devices.
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Why?

Sam H @ 10/17/2005 5:36:13 PM # Q
Is any part of Palm OS (apart from the Linux kernel) actually going to be open source?
RE: Why?
cervezas @ 10/17/2005 5:50:25 PM # Q
Is any part of Palm OS (apart from the Linux kernel) actually going to be open source?

Sure. There are lots of services they are building on top of the kernel that they definitely want--need really--to be open source. Stuff like power management, file system, etc. They want to contribute stuff like this to the community otherwise they lose the benefit of having the Linux community help to support it when new hardware comes out, bugs are found, etc.

In fact, it's really important that PalmSource take a strong leadership position in organizations like OSDL (in addition to contributing excellent code) because it helps signal to the community that when there are multiple solutions to a problem that have been contributed, PalmSource's (or the one it picks) has a strong standing as being the defacto standard (other things being equal). And that's needed to avoid fragmentation that could otherwise occur.



David Beers
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