Star Google Rallies Allies in Open Linux Phone Initiative
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 21:36 UTC, submitted by irbis
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open source mobile phone stack. The Open Handset Alliance says phones based on its Linux-based 'Android' stack will reach market in as soon as eight months. The Android stack is based on 'open Linux kernel', the group says. It also includes a full set of mobile phone application software, in order to "significantly lower the cost of developing and distributing mobile devices and services", OHA said.
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RE: lack of details
by elsewhere on Tue 6th Nov 2007 00:39 UTC in reply to "lack of details"
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Although the list of alliance members is impressive, it seems like a lot of these corporations are hedging their bets amongst the plethora of competing Linux-based smartphone projects. The FOSS community won't have any incentive to vote with its participation until somebody gets a viable and open device on the market.


Yes, I was waiting with bated breath for yet another announced linux-based open stack for smartphones, it's been at least six months since the last one. I suspect we'll probably see one or two more, before the industry starts to run out of ideas to standardize on and actually gets around to producing something. ;)

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