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Linux Organizations Unite to Fend Off Open Source Rivals

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posted Jun 26, 2008, 8:33 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has decided to join forces with the LiMo Foundation, and will fold all its activities into LiMo starting in July. The two organizations, both of which are promoting Linux on mobile handsets, will be able to pool resources and hope to concentrate efforts on creating a standard mobile Linux operating system for phones. Any platform created by the new cooperative faces competition from Google's Android platform and the newly-formed Symbian Foundation, both of which will have open source operating systems at their core.

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