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Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum

Posted by michael on from the happy-canada-day dept.

Adam Wern writes "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced the establishment of the CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions that support to meet the published requirements. CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM, an industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open standards ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the CELF."

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  1. In other news... by indros13 · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...Nerds for Nerds has released their new CELF-Help guide to open source OS.

    So punny it hurts :-)

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    Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
  2. After all... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    "CELF" is easier to pronounce than "CEGnu/LF"...

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. Oh no! by Shishio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Electronic giants? They're going to enslave us all! Run, run everybody!

    Oh, not real giants? Oh OK. Nevermind.

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    Twelve fingers or one, its how you play. ~Gattaca (Vincent)
  4. Re: Gates was right by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > Yup, Linux is just a non-threatening, passing obstacle along the road to complete IT domination by Microsoft.

    "There'll never be more than 640K Linux installations."

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  5. I find it interesting by Kardax · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that they're using FrontPage to make a website promoting Linux...

    -Kardax

  6. Clarifying Acronyms: CE = Consumer Electronics by syntap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave it to the GNU/OSS/GPL guys to give you an acronym without spelling it out first.

    "The CE Linux Forum (CELF)..."

    They tried describing it but only got there halfway :)

  7. And heads rolled in Redmond by Tsu+Dho+Nimh · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation announced the establishment of the CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones"

    And in other industry news, Microsoft announced that they were replacing all the upper management for their Faithful User Department. The FUD team has often been criticised by high-ranking management for failing to produce the degree of loyalty desired in users. The high profile defections in Germany and Spain reportedly led to a confrontational meeting and a mass firing.