[Leaplist] Six Cell Makers form Linux Foundation!

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San Francisco (IDGNS) - Six of the biggest names in cellular telephony 
have made good on a promise from last year 
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and announced a new foundation to push

Linux <http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Linux> 
standardization and adoption on mobile phones.

Hardware-makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, and 
Samsung Electronics, and carriers NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone Group Services 
said last June that they planned to work together on a Linux-based open 
software platform for mobile phones.

The nonprofit LiMo Foundation 
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is open to any individual or enterprise for an annual fee of between 
$40,000 and $800,000 depending on membership class. Membership provides 
access to and the ability to contribute to source code developed by the 
group.

A 13-member board of directors will meet four times a year to run the 
foundation. It will be led by Greg Besio of Motorola as chairman and 
Kiyohito Nagata of NTT DoCoMo as vice chairman.

Linux is finding its way into an increasing number of cell phones as 
operators and manufacturers seek to cut development costs, expand 
compatibility between different models and widen functions available on 
cell phones.

Two of the foundation members, NEC and Panasonic, have been working 
together on Linux-based phones for NTT DoCoMo since 2001 and last year 
they established a joint venture 
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to work on basic design and development of 3G cell phones. Through 
Esteemo they hope to cut development costs. Motorola and Samsung are 
also working separately on Linux-based cell phones.

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