Mobile phone companies join forces on Linux
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| Four mobile handset makers are teaming up with two cellular operators
| to develop a new Linux software platform for mobile devices.
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| Cell phone makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and
| Samsung Electronics, along with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone,
| expect to announce on Thursday plans to form an independent foundation to
| develop a common mobile Linux-based platform. They will use this platform
| to develop new products, applications and features.
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| Linux, an open-source operating system, is already available on a wide
| range of mobile handsets. Motorola alone says it has shipped more than
| 5 million Linux-based handsets, mostly on smart phones, such as the
| Ming model shipped in China. In addition, Motorola just launched the new
| Rokr E2 music phone in Asia, which also uses Linux. The Rokr E2 will
| soon ship in Europe.
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If this is not proof of GNU/Linux taking over, I don't know what is... Nokia,
Palm and others are no exception.
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