On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gregory Leblanc > > > > Any details on this? Are they leaving for financial reasons, or > > philosophical ones? There's still a big banner on their website > > regarding the partnership with Gnome. Did they not just join the > > advisory board back in July? > > > > LiMo just made some announcement on LiMo4.. is GNOME no longer a > > possible strategy for them ? Like Gregory I'd be interested in hearing > > why they pulled out and what effect it might have on our embedded device > > strategy? > > As the GNOME person quoted, I have a little more info (but the board is > better placed than me). > I think the summary below was quite succinct. Thank you. > > LiMo uses GNOME technology. They continue to support the foundation's > activities on a case-by-case basis, but their executive director did not > consider that the advisory board position was giving the foundation > value for money. We have been informing their advisory board > representatives of the great stuff we have been doing around hackfests, > training programmes, GNOME 3 plans, support for GTK+ on mobile, etc. but > Mr. Gillis was not convinced that the foundation was sufficiently > focussed on mobile to make the $20K a year worth paying. Obviously, I > disagree with him. > > By chance is the desktop environment for the Motorola Atrix laptop accessory based on LiMo? The desktop seems to have a strong resemblance to a GNOME desktop. I would love to see if we could put some effort into putting an embedded DE for the Atrix secondary DE environment. If phones are powerful enough to host a secondary desktop environment then we should try to position ourselves in that space. sri
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