Motorola's New Open Source Resource

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 16, 2006 @09:17AM from the moving-slowly-in-the-right-direction dept.

illogict writes "Among with their new A1200 GNU/Linux-based mobile phone, Motorola unveiled yesterday its new community-based development platform, http://open source.motorola.com. It is primarily aimed at developers who are willing to contribute to Motorola's GNU/Linux-based mobile phones, either directly on firmware, or creating programs (native or Java) who are aimed to work on those phones. It currently features phone kernels, SD-TransFlash card reader drivers, Java MIDP3.0 draft. Such commitment on open source-development could be seen as a good step, and may show the way to other companies."

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Amiga by Ithika · 2006-05-16 09:23 · Score: 3, Funny

A mobile phone based on the A1200? With Motorola technology? Who would have guessed.

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On the other side... by OpenSourced · 2006-05-16 10:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Such commitment on open source-development could be seen as a good step

But we can always spin it to look like pure evil.

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