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Linux on mobile phones is a touchy subject. The only reason there is an effort to port the penguin on your cell phone is to reduce licensing costs. Sure Linux advocates will talk about openness and freedom, but at the end of the day you have to collect your receipts and see where you’re leaking money. The world’s most popular smartphone os, Symbian, requires a licensing fee. If phone manufactures and carriers are given the choice to use a free alternative than what exactly can stop them?
President of the Linux Phone Standards Forum, Haila Wang said: “Ongoing elaboration and adoption of the LiPS standards specifications will sustain the impressive growth of mobile Linux deployment, enhancing interoperability among devices and software, and streamlining time-to-market and rollout for Linux-based devices and services.”
There are plenty of standards, the problem is we don’t pick one and run with it. Welcome to the world of mobile phone fragmentation. It plagues Java and now it will plague Linux.
[Via: Ars Technica]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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