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Re: [News] Motorola Establishes Open Source Community

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 02 November 2006 07:57 \__

> begin  oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Motorola to build open source Java ME community
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Motorola Inc. plans to establish an open source community for the Java
>>| Micro Edition (Java ME) software stack for the mobile industry...
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18482572190021E87C
> 
> Interesting that Motorola are, quite rightly, concerned to avoid
> industry-led fragmentation of Java.  It would appear that the dangers of
> attempting to use technical barriers to create economic lock-in are no
> longer quite so opaque, and the advantages of said approach no longer
> quite so apparent nor guaranteed to be successful.

They may have been watching UNIX for a while... *smile*

http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#06

Best wishes,

Roy

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