standard API for linux phones?

[Tim Newsom]

 From what I read, the LIPS group is creating an 'open' standard.  The 
impression I got from that was the other phone standards group was 
'closed' whatever that means.

If we are going to back a group, maybe FIC should join it and help in 
the development process of the standard. None of the members are small 
(as far as I can tell), and it does at least have the backing of some 
operators..

Either way, we will need to either submit a standard at some point or 
follow one so that others can interop with us.. Right?

--Tim
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:55, Dean Collins wrote:
> Long overdue and if it is a standard then lets all jump onboard and 
> work with it from inside rather than throwing rocks from the outside.
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> Cheers,
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> Dean
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>>  -----Original Message-----
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>>  From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-
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>>  bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Robin Paulson
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>>  Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 7:16 PM
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>>  To: community
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>>  Subject: standard API for linux phones?
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>>  the register has a piece about a draft of a standard API for linux
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>>  phones, concerning basics such as interaction with the address book,
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>>  texting, ui and voice-calling. future revisons to increase the
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>>  coverage
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>>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/lips_mobile_linux/
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>>  and from TFA
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>>  http://www.lipsforum.org/
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>>  does anyone here have any further knowledge about this, beyond the
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>>  blurb on the site? is it worth adhering to, or a thinly-veiled
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>>  atttempt for one company (it's backed by orange) to foist
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>>  propietary/their own standards on everyone else? does it compare at
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>>  all to what the linux mobile group (backed by samsung, motorola and
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>>  others) are trying to achieve? and of course, has it been considered
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>>  for openmoko/the neo?
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