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Apple Squashes the iPhone SDK NDA: What's the OSS Impact?

After much teeth-gnashing from the developer community, Apple has finally dropped its draconian and restrictive non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on the iPhone software development kit (SDK). In the seven months since the SDK showed up, Apple has taken much heat from developers and iPhone users alike over its lack of platfrom openness. The platform still isn't open, but it is a step in the right direction for Apple to eliminate this NDA. Here's what this means for the open source phones that will be competing with the iPhone.


The First Android Phone: Reactions and Predictions

So the details are in on the T-Mobile G1--the first phone based on Google's open source Android operating system. It's got some interface attractions not found on the iPhone, including a trackball and a slide-out keyboard, and it ties in with a broad range of Google's services, including StreetView, Google Maps, Gmail and more. At $179, it's cheaper than the iPhone, but it has some disadvantages in comparison, especially the fact that T-Mobile only offers 3G service in 21 cities. Let's not forget that this phone runs an open source platform though. Here are some thoughts from the LiMo Foundation, and predictions.


If Android Won't Do, Consider the Alternative Alternatives

The fateful day has arrived for the first Android-powered phone. This Google-backed open phone will likely be sufficient for a large number of users -- if not in its first incarnation, certainly within a few models and revisions.

But it certainly isn't the only open phone. It isn't the first by any means, and it has another competitor hot on its heels.

Some more pioneering souls might forego the tamer Android for the Neo FreeRunner or the upcoming NeoPwn.



No Buy-In for Access Linux: A Bad Sign for Mobile Linux?

Are we about to see more competitors pulling out of the mobile Linux race? Recently, researchers at J. Gold and Associates produced a report predicting that Google's Linux-based Android platform would merge with the new and open source mobile platform from Symbian,? pitting two huge Goliaths (Google and Nokia) against any Davids who might dare to produce Linux-based handsets. While it's pure speculation that that might ever happen, a sign of weakening confidence on the mobile Linux front has appeared: The Access Linux Platform's initial and only smartphone project was recently rubbished. Orange is bailing on its plan to deliver a Samsung smartphone running Access Linux.


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LiMo, the mobile open source foundation, has announced 11 new partners and several new devices supporting its platform.....

Microsoft's annual report and open source.....

A software integrator weighs in on commercial software versus open source.....

Opengear, maker of hardware management devices, has faced challenges with its open source strategy...



LiPS Forum, Focused on Linux Phones, To Wrap Into LiMo

In what it calls a move to support and to unify the growing momentum of Linux platforms in the global mobile market, the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced that it is foliding itself into the LiMo Foundation starting in July. After nearly three years of existence, and having delivered version 1.0 of its specification for Linux-based mobile phones the LiPS Forum has not gained a great deal of traction, but LiMo does have momentum, and will gain resources from the deal. Here's what the LiPS Forum can provide LiMo.


LiMo Foundation Says It Welcomes the Symbian Foundation

As we posted yesterday, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open source mobile software platform. In conjunction, a number of members have announced the Symbian Foundation, to oversee the new platform. Now, the LiMo Foundation--which has a Linux-based mobile platform that will arrive on many phones later this year--has issued a statement welcoming the Symbian Foundation. Will we in fact see fierce competition between these two entities?


GigaOm: The Mobile Linux War

With a series of Linux-based phones based on the LiMO platform coming this year, and phones based on Google's Linux-based Android platform, is there risk of market fragmentation? We've looked at the platform prospects before. Now, Stacey Higginbotham, on our sister blog GigaOm, has an analysis of what we can expect to see. She also wonders why ABI Research keeps adjusting its predictions for Linux smartphone market share. Check it out.


LiMo and Linux Phones: Are Enterprises the Target?

ZDNet U.K. is out with some interesting analysis of the LiMo Foundation's announcement that Verizon Wireless, Mozilla and several other organizations are joining up with it. According to the ZDNet U.K. report, there may be some moves afoot by two of the very well-known Linux distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space to join LiMo and combine mobile open source applications on Linux phones with enterprise open source deployments.



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A new version 9 of Fedora, the community maintained Linux distro that's the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is out, as is analysis.....

OpenOffice's new beta--compatibility problems with MS Office XML formats?.....

Vidoop hires dream team open source veterans.....

Does the market have irrational expectations for open source?.....



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