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Title: Palm And Linux
Post by: speculatrix on June 13, 2005, 09:18:48 am

http://www.brighthand.com/article/Latest_o...Linux?site=Palm (http://www.brighthand.com/article/Latest_on_Palm_OS_for_Linux?site=Palm)

will there now a third choice: Sharp datebook, KO/pi and Palm?

Title: Palm And Linux
Post by: technojunkie on June 13, 2005, 04:15:58 pm

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http://www.brighthand.com/article/Latest_o...Linux?site=Palm (http://www.brighthand.com/article/Latest_on_Palm_OS_for_Linux?site=Palm)

will there now a third choice: Sharp datebook, KO/pi and Palm?
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Call me skeptical, but if this ever comes to light, given Palm's current stance I highly doubt we will see any *official* Palm interface on our Zs.

Title: Palm And Linux
Post by: ev1l on June 15, 2005, 06:08:29 am

Re-read the article. They're just running the Palm apps on top of a Linux kernel, and have no intention of open-sourcing those.
To me this looks very much like a take-only move from Palm, because their kernel's been poor all along. I'll change my mind once they start allowing the users to have a 100% FOSS stack on the palms. Of course they can't allow that, since Palm Source makes money porting the software stack to third party achitectures.