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Apple Squashes the iPhone SDK NDA: What's the OSS Impact?

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After much teeth-gnashing from the developer community, Apple has finally dropped its draconian and restrictive non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on the iPhone software development kit (SDK). In the seven months since the SDK showed up, Apple has taken much heat from developers and iPhone users alike over its lack of platfrom openness. The platform still isn't open, but it is a step in the right direction for Apple to eliminate this NDA. Here's what this means for the open source phones that will be competing with the iPhone.


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Wind River CMO Dishes on Symbian, Mobile Linux

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Speaking at the Open Source in Mobile conference in Berlin, John Bruggeman, Chief Marketing Officer of Wind River, has delivered some controversial statements. Wind River is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance behind Android, and a Core Member of LiMo. Bruggerman said that the mobile industry has been confused and misled by the Symbian Foundation announcement, that Linux phones will never be as good as the iPhone, and that many people in the mobile value chain just don't get it. His comments have drawn a response from Symbian. Our sister blog JKOnTheRun has the complete story.


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Novell's third-quarter loss widens, but Linux booms by 30 percent.....

Google Code reverses its open source license ban. Mozilla's and Eclipse's Public Licenses get the nod.....

Four Twitter clients for Linux.....

What open sourcers can learn from the French....



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No Buy-In for Access Linux: A Bad Sign for Mobile Linux?

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Are we about to see more competitors pulling out of the mobile Linux race? Recently, researchers at J. Gold and Associates produced a report predicting that Google's Linux-based Android platform would merge with the new and open source mobile platform from Symbian,? pitting two huge Goliaths (Google and Nokia) against any Davids who might dare to produce Linux-based handsets. While it's pure speculation that that might ever happen, a sign of weakening confidence on the mobile Linux front has appeared: The Access Linux Platform's initial and only smartphone project was recently rubbished. Orange is bailing on its plan to deliver a Samsung smartphone running Access Linux.


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Microsoft's open source guru faces slings and arrows.....

A review of Sun's open source virtualization offering VirtualBox.....

Intuit joins the Linux revolution , opens a Linux Business Resource Center.....

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst: The clouds will all run Linux .....

ZDNet on why Android and Symbian won't merge.....



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Business Users and the Coming Mobile OS Battles

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I just came across an interesting analysis of the competitive landscape for mobile operating systems from Andreas Constantinou, a technical researcher with a Ph.D. in compression algorithms. Constantinou heads up Vision Mobile, a market analysis firm focused on the wireless sector. Among other things, he predicts that Microsoft may open source much of Windows Mobile, in response to challenges from an open source Symbian OS, Google's Linux-based Android platform, and the LiMo platform. Is this likely?


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LiMo Foundation Says It Welcomes the Symbian Foundation

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As we posted yesterday, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open source mobile software platform. In conjunction, a number of members have announced the Symbian Foundation, to oversee the new platform. Now, the LiMo Foundation--which has a Linux-based mobile platform that will arrive on many phones later this year--has issued a statement welcoming the Symbian Foundation. Will we in fact see fierce competition between these two entities?


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Symbian to Go Open Source, Nokia to Buy Out Symbian Shares

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There's more momentum on the mobile open source front. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open mobile software platform. In addition, the Symbian Foundation is now formed, with many prominent early members, including AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Nokia will also buy out the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that it doesn't already own, for $410 million. Is Nokia only aiming to stop paying hefty Symbian license fees, or does this point to a promising new open source mobile platform? What does this mean for Linux phones?


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The Linux kernel development community is petitioning for open Linux kernel drivers, and the Linux Foundation has posted a supportive statement.? As Matt Asay says, and as we've said before this has been a long time coming....

Phones based on Google's Android platform are being delayed until the fourth quarter. ? ZDNet sees it as the carriers' fault.....

HP has announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.....

Parascale, focused on storage for cloud computing, has raised $11.37 million in Series A venture funding.....



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The iPhone Apps Look Good: Spend Some Money Google!

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At yesterday's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, where Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 3G and numerous other initiatives, it became very clear that the coming battle among smartphones will be largely decided on? the basis of who gets the best applications. Applications built with the upcoming iPhone 2.0 SDK looked very mature, and there were many demonstrations showing how easy they were to create. What does this mean for Google's Linux-based Android mobile platform and the wave of Linux-based phones expected later this year?


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