Nokia's Maemo: A Free Software Platform?

arc arc at fsfe.org
Thu Feb 1 12:08:20 UTC 2007


The only company that is investing to develop a free software platform 
for mobile phones which I know of, is ACCESS.

http://www.access-company.com/home.html

A few years ago there was a company called Palm which developed 
smartphones (treo, etc.) with the PalmOS proprietary operating system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS

Then the PalmOS division left Palm and formed a new company called 
Palmsource but the OS was still proprietary.

Later a company called ACCESS acquired Palmsource and now they are 
working on APL: Access Linux Platform (they called the system Linux 
instead of GNU/Linux).

http://www.access-company.com/products/linux/alp.html

They hope to begin selling smartphones with APL before the end of 2007.

Is the Mobile GNU/Linux era beginning?

:)

http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8514/access-linux-platform-shown-at-linuxworld/


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