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JKOnTheRun reports this today: As we wait for Motorola?s Android phone, the Cliq/Dext, the company is once again confirming its commitment to the Android platform. Motorola had already stated that it was dropping Windows Mobile to focus on Android, and it?s doing the same with LiMo. Christy Wyatt, VP at Motorola, has vacated her seat on the LiMo Foundation board of directors.

According to a Motorola statement: At this time [Motorola] feels that the Android platform gives it a richer, more consistent foundation with strong support for the ecosystem and developer community.? With Android gaining so much momentum, and wooing handset makers and multiple wireless carriers alike, LiMo's mobile Linux strategy is looking fragile.

ZDNet U.K. is out with some interesting analysis of the LiMo Foundation's announcement that Verizon Wireless, Mozilla and several other organizations are joining up with it. According to the ZDNet U.K. report, there may be some moves afoot by two of the very well-known Linux distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space to join LiMo and combine mobile open source applications on Linux phones with enterprise open source deployments.

A new version 9 of Fedora, the community maintained Linux distro that's the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is out, as is analysis.....

OpenOffice's new beta--compatibility problems with MS Office XML formats?.....

Vidoop hires dream team open source veterans.....

Does the market have irrational expectations for open source?.....

At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker gave an address on opening the mobile web, which Webware did a nice job of analyzing. Many people have been wondering if Mozilla will deliver a version of the Firefox browser to work with the many Linux-based phones currently in the works, including phones based on Google's Android platform. While Baker didn't concretely confirm those details, she did discuss an upcoming mobile browser from Mozilla, to arrive later this year, code-named Fennec. (A Fennec is a small fox--get it?)