MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 28, 2011 13:32 UTC (Wed) by fuhchee (guest, #40059)
Parent article: MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

"The Linux Foundation will host the project"

One hopes that their contribution will be different than that of e.g. github.

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 28, 2011 14:28 UTC (Wed) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link] (5 responses)

The Linux Foundation's role here is just as a facilitator of a working group to come and meet together in a "vendor-neutral" place, it makes no judgment call on the validity of the project, the technical direction, or anything else about it.

So whenever you see a LF workgroup, just remember the phrase, "It's just like Carrier Grade Linux (CGL)", and that will answer any questions you might have had :)

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 28, 2011 15:15 UTC (Wed) by martin.langhoff (subscriber, #61417) [Link] (1 responses)

In this case, it will be easy to be vendor neutral. There are no more vendors to speak of! Unless a business sees potential in it and decides to invest, it will be whoever sticks around for the fun or passion of it.

Considering that the skillset (of making Linux work well on phones) is hot, I expect (and hope!) everyone involved in a defunct Linux phone effort will find a new position soon... and the residual inertia of Meego will be nil.

Business is a lot like this -- projects are pushed like crazy, then abandoned on the slightest mgmt or wind change. Life sucks.

But it used to suck a whole lot more when the code was all behind walls. Man-years of effort thrown into the void, and patents sold to a troll.

As it stands, MeeGo will (I hope) have moved the ball forward. Perhaps just one inch or two, but forward. GTK, Qt and the overall Linux stack will have seen patches that fix this, or improve that.

Later projects can grab MeeGo and see the architecture, like it, hate it; steal the best ideas and ditch the rest.

Could have been much worse.

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Oct 4, 2011 1:46 UTC (Tue) by deunan_knute (guest, #290) [Link]

well said.

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 28, 2011 15:25 UTC (Wed) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

Thx for this. That's an important thing to be said.

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 29, 2011 1:58 UTC (Thu) by leemgs (guest, #24528) [Link] (1 responses)

so, in summary in my view,
trizen = meego + limo (+linux foundation)
it seems that the appearance is so in my thinking.
hehe.

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Sep 29, 2011 2:09 UTC (Thu) by leemgs (guest, #24528) [Link]

typo.. Trizen --> Tizen.