Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2005 11:28:34 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: Linux for Mobile phones and PDAs [long] |
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Hi!
> Again, this week, during the LinuxWorld event in New-York, Nokia > unveiled its first tablet-PC (Nokia 770, http://www.nokia.com/770) > which is running under a 2.6.x kernel > (http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/05/25/139202.shtml?tid=100, > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5409534614.html) ! The day after, > Nokia announce that they will release patents for Open Source > development (as IBM did) > (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/05/25/1827259.shtml?tid=155&tid=106). > But, that's not all of it, it seems that the making of the 770 has > involved quite a lot of the people of the Open Source community whom > were ask to keep a 'low profile' until the product will be released > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2005-May/msg00021.html). > So, indeed, Nokia has been funding several Open Source projects for the > last few months without advertising it too much. From my (poor) > knowledge here are some of the companies Nokia did fund for getting its > 770 ready:
This is good news. OTOH sharp zauruses have been here for quite long time, and failed to make this kind of publicity.
Pavel, [still trying to make 2.6 mount / on his zaurus sl-5500]
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