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It's No Shock that Verizon Wireless Chose LiMo over Android
Filed in archive Mobile by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 16, 2008
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I was listening to Alec Saunders' Squawk Box podcast today when a bombshell was let loose - something that makes the news that Verizon Wireless chose LiMo over Google's Android make total sense: LiMo is arguably not open source.


Skip ahead to about the 21:30 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?


Crossposted from The Mobile Technology Weblog




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