Linux houses a tempting promise, one of free software developed by volunteers more focused on purity of code and feeling needed than wealth. Now Verizon has announced its support of a Linux-based mobile operating system LiMo, which competes with Google Android. But, with its historically closed systems, does Verizon fit in with the benevolent programmers powering Linux?
LiMo is actually further along than Google Android, “with 18 handsets from eight different companies in the market. The wide number of development partners in the LiMo Foundation and the more open nature of the group attracted Verizon Wireless,” vice president at Verizon Kyle Malady told CNN .
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Linux houses a tempting promise, one of free software developed by volunteers more focused on purity of code and feeling needed than wealth. Now Verizon has announced its support of a Linux-based mobile operating system LiMo, which competes with Google Android. But, with its historically closed systems, does Verizon fit in with the benevolent programmers powering Linux?
LiMo is actually further along than Google Android, “with 18 handsets from eight different companies in the market. The wide number of development partners in the LiMo Foundation and the more open nature of the group attracted Verizon Wireless,” vice president at Verizon Kyle Malady told CNN .
Initially [...]
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