Palm OS To Run On Linux

mwk88 writes "PalmSource today announced it is acquiring China Mobile Soft, a leading Chinese mobile phone software company, and will offer future versions of Palm OS Cobalt running on Linux. Full disclosure: I am a PalmSource employee -- but also a Slashdot reader, and would like to get some feedback. You can find more detail in this letter to the Linux community." NewsForge (also part of OSTG) has a textified (non-PDF), linked version of the letter.

Comments

Re:Linux has revivification potential

[Pxtl]

Yeah, Palm is goin' bye-bye. If Bay Street in Toronto is any indication, the suits are all into RIM now. Can't say a blame them - J2ME + Thumbboard + beats Palm-proprietary bytecode + Grafitti2 (ick!), besides Palm being a little late-to-market with cellular support.

Re:best of both worlds

[doublem]

But MAC has competent programmers.

Given the sync problems and other assorted Palm related issues (Don;t get me started on the lack of a wireless card for the T2) I'd say this will be a disaster.

They can barely get their own software to run. Even if they just toss their GUI on Linux, it still won't work, because based on the recent products I've seen, they don;t have the technical expertise to pull off such a project.

Apple has skilled, competent developers.

Palm has just enough talent to get the next half-assed hack out the door.

Palm + Linux = Suck, and probably a boatload of GPL violations while we're at it.