LiMo Foundation
The LiMo (Linux Mobile ) Foundation is an alliance, which was founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone in January 2007. Since then, several other members ( inter alia, the Mozilla Foundation ) have joined the Alliance. The aim of the non-profit organization, is, inter alia, the LiMo Platform to support a Linux-based operating system for mobile phones. The LiMo Platform is now further developed under the operating system Tizen.
History
In June 15, 2006 Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced the formation of an organization for Linux on mobile devices, in January 2007, it was founded. In August 2007, Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee and Wind River were added as core members and other members. By mid 2008, Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei, Purple Labs, Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless were added. In 2008, the LiPS Forum and all members were transferred to the LiMo Foundation. Therefore, Telecom Italia, ZTE VirtualLogix and the number of members rose to more than 50, including the membership of cellon, Esmertecs, Freescale, Longcheer, MIZI Research, Movial, PacketVideo (PV ), SK Innoace. Both companies hope to gain a larger market share in the rapidly growing and competitive mobile market. In February 2009, Opera Software ASA LiMo Foundation has joined. The aim is to ensure the developed browser Opera full compatibility with mobile platforms that simplify development and to make market more quickly.
End of September 2011, it was announced that LiMo will merge with the MeeGo project. The new project will be called Tizen.
LiMo Platform
The LiMo Platform is a modular, hardware-independent mobile operating system should be promoted, its source code is partially open. The Common Code pool is only for members who pay five -to six- figure sums, accessible free of charge. The LiMo platform support since version R1 C and C for native development. With R2 an Internet framework should be introduced to run programs in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In addition, multimedia features, location- based services, and enhance security should be implemented. An SDK based on Eclipse, according to the manufacturer should be available since the 4th quarter of 2008.
Members
Founding members
- NEC
- NTT DoCoMo
- Orange
- Panasonic
- Samsung
- Vodafone
- (Motorola: Motorola has changed its status shortly after its founding and is now only " associate member " )
Core members
- Access Co.
- Aplix
- Azingo
- LG Electronics
- McAfee
- Purple Labs
- SK Telecom
- Texas Instruments
- Verizon Wireless
- Wind River Systems