Really great news :) I wish you all the best 2009/7/29 Pieter Colpaert <freep...@gmail.com>: > +1! > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:33 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: >> Mickey, Stefan, Daniel and Jan, >> >> congratulations! >> I wish you all the best, both from a free software and business perspective >> it's so important to avoid the mobile Android monoculture :-) >> >> Way to go FSO, we will do what we can to support you guys. >> Wolfgang >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >> > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release. >> > >> > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate >> > the further development of free and open source middleware for >> > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lbbe, Schmidt, Willmann, >> > freesmartphone.org GbR". >> > >> > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced >> > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and >> > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware >> > platform, also known as FSO[1]. >> > >> > "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and >> > non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling >> > solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new >> > devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who >> > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer, >> > founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development >> > of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing >> > the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at >> > coret...@freesmartphone.org". >> > >> > With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has >> > emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and >> > core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the >> > other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders >> > innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services >> > middleware. >> > >> > FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid >> > middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not >> > only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to >> > sharing the whole design and development process with the community and >> > giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and >> > steer the process. >> > >> > Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for >> > mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess >> > communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to >> > concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business >> > logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device >> > specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources, >> > telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc. >> > >> > About freesmartphone.org: >> > Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration >> > platform for open source and open discussion software projects working >> > on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones. >> > freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and >> > offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern >> > interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions, >> > freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific >> > communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO >> > team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the >> > freedesktop.org community. >> > >> > [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Openmoko community mailing list >> > community@lists.openmoko.org >> > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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