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RE: Why?
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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