On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2011/1/6 Shamit Verma <[email protected]>: > > Its like FAT32, developed by MS but a de-facto standard. It is supported > by > > iOS, Android, Symbian, Samsung. Blackberry. And it works on > > Windows/Mac/Linux > > Which software on Linux supports ActiveSync? > > As far as the comparison to FAT-32 is concerned, that is sufficient > reason to stay as far away from ActiveSync as possible - since FAT-32 > is the first known product whose patents Microsoft tried to enforce on > Linux. See: > > > http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/microsoft-sues-tomtom-over-fat-patents-in-linux-based-device.ars > > ActiveSync is similarly patent-encumbered. > > OpenSync is one the most used packages on Linux. Good into on that : http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/b/bb/OpenSync_FOSDEM_2007.pdf In mobile world, there is not escaping MS things. MS was doing smartphones in 1998 when no one else was, thats why Windows CE technologies like FAT32/OBEX/ActiveSync are well entrenched in this market. Everyone including Apple/Android/BlackBerry licenses in from MS. -Shamit -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
