http://www.osnews.com/story/18274/Intel_Launches_Mobile_Linux_Initiative Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:02:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?255960 http://osnews.com/thread?255960 interesting. but i wonder what nokia will have to say about this as it walks squarely into maemo turf. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255964 http://osnews.com/thread?255964 The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don't think they're dumb enough to do that.

I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't see this coming.Edited 2007-07-17 12:23 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vegai) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255965 http://osnews.com/thread?255965 Of course they couldn't come up with a better name for that...
Ugh. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Buck) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255976 http://osnews.com/thread?255976 Makes me think of the OpenMoko project:
http://www.openmoko.orgBrowser: Links (1.00pre12; Linux 2.6.21.5-ph-grsec i686; 157x54) (Debian pkg 0.99+1.00pre12-1.1) Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trinitrotolueen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255977 http://osnews.com/thread?255977 The more souls that step on the {mobile}-OSS bandwagon the better. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trinitrotolueen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255979 http://osnews.com/thread?255979 Well if they had called it Mobilix they would have got sued by the publishers of the Asterix cartoon series:

http://mobilix.org/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255990 http://osnews.com/thread?255990 WOULD YOU MORONS STOP f--kING WHINING ABOUT NAMES Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255991 http://osnews.com/thread?255991 Yes but this is Intel. They don't have souls. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?255995 http://osnews.com/thread?255995 """
The only thing they can do is close up future versions of Hildon. I don't think they're dumb enough to do that.
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Especially bearing in mind that Hildon is but a thin layer of lacquer over GTK/Gnome, and that Nokia's software for the N700-N800 is more than 99% taken verbatim from the Free Software ecosystem.

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I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't see this coming.
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Even more, I'd be pretty surprised if an Intel based Nokia N900 was not already in the works. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lobotomik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?256272 http://osnews.com/thread?256272 How does this relate to GMAE?

GMAE was only announced on April 19 and the founding organizations included Intel, Nokia, Red Hat, and Canonical.

http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gmae.html

"Bridging industry and community, the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative involves Open Source projects such as Avahi, BlueZ, Cairo, GNOME, GPE, GStreamer, GTK+, Hildon, Maemo, Matchbox, OpenMoko, Telepathy and Tinymail; and industry organisations CELF, the Linux Foundation and LiPS." Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahalsey) Comments