LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

[Posted February 15, 2011 by ris]

LiMo Foundation has announced the launch of LiMo 4. "LiMo 4 makes extensive use of best of breed technologies from leading open source projects. LiMo's Open Source Policy also promotes strong bilateral engagement with these projects in the interests of maintenance efficiency and market access for future open source innovation. It is planned that LiMo 4 code will become available for public download from July 2011."

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 15, 2011 18:32 UTC (Tue) by gsbarbieri (guest, #10537) [Link]

Although not in the announcement text, it marks the introduction of EFL in mobile industry:

http://www.limofoundation.org/en/what-is-the-platform.html

That came after EFL 1.0 was released earlier this year by Rasterman.

Obscurity

Posted Feb 15, 2011 18:42 UTC (Tue) by danielpf (guest, #4723) [Link]

As for the Mageia announcement, the given summary provides absolutely not the slightest clue about what is the discussed topic. A short sentence informing what is LiMo 4 would facilitate the information flow.

This type of obscurity is frequent in software short introductory descriptions. Outsiders reading them often get strictly no information about what is the software.

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 15, 2011 18:50 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (4 responses)

Why should I care that the code is available? What can I do with it?

Can I run it on a phone of my own? Or is it just like the source code of Symbian?

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 15, 2011 20:32 UTC (Tue) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link] (3 responses)

http://www.limofoundation.org/en/benefits-for-the-mobile-...

"Additionally, technology vendors and ISVs can develop their own products for a software platform that is broadly adopted by the whole industry."

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 16, 2011 2:15 UTC (Wed) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link]

by 'broadly', who is using it nowadays?
just curious

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 16, 2011 14:51 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, Symbian is very popular. Could I use the published Symbian source code to modify something with a phone of my own? What about LiMo?

LiMo Foundation Unveils LiMo 4

Posted Feb 17, 2011 0:29 UTC (Thu) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link]

Apparently you can use it to make your own phone.