Re: Linux for Mobile phones and PDAs [long]

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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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