OpenMoko promises open devices
01 November 2006
A collective of open source proponents have brought the General Public Licence (GPL) ethos to the mobile platform-by pitching a community-driven effort to create an open platform that allows people to customise their phone any way they see fit.
The brainchild of open Linux supporter Sean Moss-Pultz, and backed by Taiwanese motherboard and electronics firm FIC, OpenMoko promises to bring the open source Linux efforts of the desktop to the mobile handset.
Mobile phone operating systems are largely proprietary and fragmented and even Linux-based offerings tend to run the Linux kernel with a proprietary and often locked-down top layer. But OpenMoko uses the latest 2.6.18 kernel and replicates the desktop environment on a pocket sized device.
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