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Mobile Leaders Around the World Launch LiMo Foundation
The LiMo Foundation
has been
launched.
"To support their goal
of creating the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software
platform for mobile devices, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile
Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced today the
official launch of the LiMo Foundation.
A not-for-profit organization, the LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending
the community-based development benefits of transparency, innovation and
scalability with the best development practices from the mobile community
to create an innovative new business model."
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Mobile Leaders Around the World Launch LiMo Foundation Posted Jan 25, 2007 21:49 UTC (Thu) by imcdnzl (subscriber, #28899) [Link] We now have the Linux Foundation and the LiMo Foundation so soon we will have the Linux LiMo Foundation :-) This is a much better alternative than having Microsoft limos - like their deal with Ford...
Embedded GTK+ fragmented? Posted Jan 26, 2007 15:42 UTC (Fri) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link] We already have:
On one hand, this looks like a success story for embedded GTK+, but I'm worried that things divert too much. Maybe LiMo comes to the rescue, but none of the forementioned companies/communities are part of LiMo. Opinions?
Embedded GTK+ fragmented? Posted Jan 26, 2007 19:02 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link] LiMO has not been open to additional members until now. They will be recruiting additional participants. It's way too early to say how many will join in. It's way too early to know whether [the big one] more carriers will sign on. The goal is reasonable - to have a consistent middleware/framework/API base for developers to build on...
Embedded GTK+ fragmented? Posted Jan 26, 2007 20:21 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] I don't think Gtk fragmentation is a problem. Anybody saneis going to merge with upstream as well/fast as they can (if one is not going to keep very compatible to Gtk, what was the point in taking Gtk in the first place?). On your list wxWidgets is (on Linux) just a wrapper for Gtk, Gtk on framebuffer is just a framebuffer Gdk backend for Gtk (similar to the X, Windows and Directfb backends for Gtk). Or were you talking about the stuff around and above Gtk? The profiliteration of mobile platforms and their non-standard APIs could be a bit of a problem...
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