Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @06:54AM 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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I see they waited... by Realistic_Dragon · 2003-07-01 07:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

...until ripping off MS product names was pioneered by Lindows.

Still I'm all for it, especially if it ends up with things like improved Real Time OS code being pushed back into the GPL arena and made available for desktop uses.

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What the Hell the site is made with forntpage! by genevaroth · 2003-07-01 07:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

That site is made with frontpage!