While the sources for the iPhone and Mac OS haven't been published,
they are based on open source BSD Unix. The BSD license allows the
modifier to retain their changes.
So Linux/Unix is now the basis for Palm's webOS, Apple iPhone and
Google Android.
Add Access's ALP to be polite, since this forum is still hosted by them! :)
Palm also went with WebKit, which is the open source browser engine
from Apple, and is also used in the iPhone, Safari and Chrome web
browsers. (what does Android use?)
The big issue for developers is the difference in development environments.
Apple require you to create apps in their own Object C on a Mac.
Google's Android uses a semi-compiled Java, using Eclipse on Linux and Windows.
Palm's webOS development is going to be JS/CSS/HTML/HTML5 and they
have not provided many other details.
Also keep in mind it took nearly a year for Apple to release their
development system after the iPhone's announcement, and Palm are
already talking a little about their's.
Roger Stringer
At 03:15 AM 1/17/2009, you wrote:
Subject: Re: Are you feeling special?
From: Frantisek Dufka <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:45:44 +0100
X-Message-Number: 1
Lionscribe wrote:
> Well it's a question between Capitalism & Socialism.
Yes, this is precisely the mindset I was talking about ;-) This FUD was
quite popular 10 years ago. The GPL is a cancer was a good one too :-)
> Usualy Capitalism is more successful.
This may work well in material world (where marginal production costs
are not zero) but it is not as good recipe in virtual world (the world
of 'intellectual property').
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all
> Though OpenSource projects are great for the savvy, they usualy
are not successful with end consumer.
> For example, Linux may be great for servers which are maintained
by techs, but it will never be a real option for the average Joe.
The reason, is there is not much money to be made.
> So for a PDA OS, stop OpenSource talking,
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.rf-tp.com)
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