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'We're making this change for several reasons:'
An open letter to the Palm OS? community
http://www.palmsource.com/announcement/communityletter.html
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We're making this change for several reasons:

Linux is intensely popular among electronics companies, especially in Asia, which is becoming the center of mobile device manufacturing. We think providing a Palm OS? solution for Linux can help bring in more licensees.

* The rate of innovation in Linux is faster than anything a proprietary operating system company can do on its own; in the future, we think getting things like device drivers and support for new chips and components will be much easier. This change won't be directly visible to Palm OS users, but over time we think it should mean faster development of new types of devices.
* Providing solutions for Linux will allow our engineers to focus on improving the Palm OS interface, PalmSource? PIM applications, and advanced software frameworks -- exactly the sort of user-visible innovation that many of you have been asking us for.
* Many corporations broadly deploy Linux on servers. Palm OS for Linux will let companies leverage that investment to support and deploy Palm Powered products to their employees.
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Posted by: David Mohring   Posted on: 12/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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This is a smart move. A lot of intelligent people in China.  DonnieBoy | 12/08/04
Linux platform will become a leading operating system for mobile devices  David Mohring | 12/08/04
'We're making this change for several reasons:'  David Mohring | 12/08/04
maybe one day they'll open source BeOS  Arm A. Geddon | 12/08/04
very interesting thought....  Monkey_MCSE | 12/08/04
there's some diehards(yellowtab, openBeOS, etc.) like myself...  Arm A. Geddon | 12/08/04
If BeOS were GPL'd  George Mitchell | 12/09/04
This will be a boost for Linux!  George Mitchell | 12/09/04
I couldn't agree with you more!! (nt)  Arm A. Geddon | 12/09/04

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