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[News] Open Handset Alliance Sparks Debate About Meaning of "Open"

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Apple’s walled garden & the meaning of Open Source

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| He sees a glimmer of hope (but only just) in the Open Handset Alliance. For a 
| big picture look at the larger topic, Tim O’Reilly, a supporter of the free  
| software and open source movements who is widely credited with coining the 
| term Web 2.0, gave a highly accessible and provocative talk at last year’s 
| Open Source Conference on the meaning of freedom and Open Source:   
| 
|     What exactly makes a piece of Open Source software ‘open’ in the first 
|     place? Is it that it is available free of charge? Or that users have the 
|     ability to improve upon it and even create their own version of the 
|     software? Or that participation is open to anyone and everyone? Or a 
|     combination of all of the above? O’Reilly runs through a few of the ways 
|     in which he believes Open Source software should be classified.     
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http://themoderatevoice.com/media/internet/21102/apples-walled-garden-the-meaning-of-open-source/
http://tinyurl.com/64mquq

Apple is even 'more proprietary' than Microsoft.


Recent:

First Look: OpenMoko's Linux-based open smartphone platform

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| For rapid prototyping and avoiding the hassle of having to set up a compiler
| toolchain, developers can use Python to create OpenMoko applications. Python
| isn't officially supported, but the interpreter is available from the main
| repositories and GTK+ bindings are available from third-party repositories.
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/open-moko-software.ars


FreeRunner Linux phone sells out, more on the way

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| Less that one week after going on sale via its own e-commerce site, the
| 900MHz version of OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Linux phone has sold out, but
| don't despair yet as more are on the way.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/252142/freerunner_linux_phone_sells_more_way
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