"I don't usually post twice a day, but today was opening day in
Barcelona of the Mobile World Congress, the biggest mobile show of
the year, and the announcements were popping thick and fast. One of
those announcements unveiled a new mobile platform called MeeGo - a
new open source contender in the race to power the broad array of
devices that are rapidly proliferating in the mobile marketplace.
And, I'm happy to say, MeeGo will be hosted by The Linux
Foundation.
"We've been working for some time on this, and we're very
pleased that the project has now gone public. The LF press release
can be found here, and the Intel version of the joint Intel-Nokia
release is here. As usual, both are also pasted in below for
archival purposes. I think you'd also find LF Executive Director
Jim Zemlin's blog entry worth a read, and I'll quote from it
below.
"MeeGo represents the merger of Intel's Moblin open source
platform (already hosted by LF) and Nokia's Maemo project, and
represents a bold move by both companies to re-stake a claim in a
marketspace that grows in value and complexity by the day."
