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RE: Standards are great
That was my first reaction, too, but I think that may be something of a misunderstanding of what's happening here. OSDL is more focused on low-level stuff whereas Lips is working at the application level, for example. And apparently where the overlap does occur it is in response to differing demands from operators in different regions. It seems to me that the upshot of these initiatives is genuinely coalescent as opposed to fragmentational.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
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Mobile Linux forms a phalanx
It seems to me that more than any other Linux initiative to date this one signifies that the various members of the mobile Linux ecosystem are seeing their efforts as a collaborative and concerted effort to displace Windows Mobile and Symbian. The fact that PalmSource is in the middle of this is great. This is the kind of leadership that several analysts hoped PalmSource would bring to the currently fragmented mobile Linux scene in order to make Linux a credible threat to WM and Symbian.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Mobile Linux forms a phalanx
RE: Mobile Linux forms a phalanx
More like a circular firing squad. They can pay all the lip service they want to interoperability, but Linux will never be a significant player in the market without a single standard user interface, API set, and system profile.
Which is precisely what LiPS is about. Did you not read this?
...no company will want to pay money for someone else's software when they could hack together their own.
Last I checked Motorola thought it was worth at least $300M to buy "someone else's software" in favor of the hacked together Linux platform they're using now. It's not such an easy thing to build a good phone platform these days. And once you're done hacking it together it's not so easy to sell it to the operators if it doesn't come with applications.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Mobile Linux forms a phalanx
If Linux is going to have a future, it's as an underlayer for another OS, similar to the Unix core for Mac OS X.
The Moto offer wasn't about choosing one flavor of Linux over another. PalmSource has IP and assets, actual code which belongs only to them. You can't say that about most Linux shops.
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