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No Shock Verizon Wireless Chose LiMo Over Android

Filed in archive Operators by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 16, 2008

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Today I was catching up and listening to Alec Saunders' Squawk Box podcast when a bombshell was let loose-something that makes the news that Verizon Wireless chose LiMo over Google's Android make total selse: LiMo is arguably not open source. Skip ahead to about the 21:30 minute mark on the 16 May 2008 Squawk Box podcast. The major points:


  • The only thing open about LiMo is that it runs on Linux and that the APIs are relatively open, but the APIs only allow very limited functionality.



  • A fee of $400,000 a year is required to be able to contribute source code to the project.

  • You can only use commercially-friendly Open-Source licenses in your code.



Sounds a bit like what people thought about Verizon Wireless: they say they want to be open, but really, they're not going to open up. This surprise any one?






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