standard API for linux phones?

Paul A. Lambert paul at picomobilenet.com
Tue Jun 12 08:19:34 CEST 2007




On Jun 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, michael at michaelshiloh.com wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is useful. It sounds a bit more like a  
> marketing group.
> You have to pay a fee to join.
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> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Dean Collins wrote:
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>> 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.

It costs a bunch to join ... so it's hard to work on the inside.   
It's interesting the more you pay, the more votes you get in the forum.

	http://lipsforum.org/downloads/legal/LiPSInternalPolicay.pdf

The press release says they have released a specification ... but  
nothing is visible on the web site.   I am not sure how Linux  
compatible this group is .... at least in philosophy.  The  
participation is closed, the  forum allows patented code (as long as  
the license is non-discriminatory).  Even with these issues, I'd  
still be very interested in seeing what they are cooking up.

Paul



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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
>> http://lipsforum.org/downloads/legal/LiPSInternalPolicay.pdf
>>> 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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