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20071211 Tuesday December 11, 2007

Holy Hot LiPS Houlihan! Yet another Linux consortium?

LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) is yet another Linux consortium working on a standard for the cell phone industry. Just like Google Android, they have a typical cast of characters that have ganged up, uh, grouped together including Orange, France Telecom, MontaVista, Access, and Don Corleone. OK, maybe not the Don--just seeing if you were paying attention.

Unlike, the Google Android Cosa Nostra, the Hot LiPS cabal has released its first spec.

See:

Hot LiPS Spec.

Here's a quote: 

 The market greeted the launch 
 of LiPS in 2005 with some fanfare 
 but nothing like the excitement 
 around Google's recent 
 announcement of Android.  LiPS is 
 different from the Open Handset 
 Alliance, the group supporting 
 Google's Android, because it is 
 a specification that allows users 
 to create different interoperable 
 implementations while Android 
 is itself one implementation of 
 Linux...
Ah, that's the difference. I was confused there thinking there are a billion and one of these Linux consortia out there. Silly me!

But, there's only one that will make you an offer you can't refuse...

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