That's actually pretty naive. The mobile phone industry is one of the most aggressively closed-source industries out there. Which is reflected in the state of the tool sets.
It's very easy to say "if only open source developers would...." but you see all these phones are closed-source (except the Linux phones which are very few in number). You don't see Nokia giving away copies of the Symbian SDK at the street corner. The mobile phone industry is so competitive that the likes of Nokia, Ericsson, etc. have no motivation to go open-source (in spite of all their yakking about the KDE-based browser in Series 60 3rd Gen). That's why in spite of UAProf etc. WAP compliance is still very much a hit-and-miss affair. The handset manufacturers have no interest in improving interoperability with their competitors' handsets. It's not about the development tools. It's about the handsets. These are billion-dollar companies which have entrenched closed-source mentalities. Probably even more entrenched than Microsoft. On 5/30/07, Harvey Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if only linux and open source developers focus on creating/developing WAP > SDK and IDE, developing mobile apps for phones and PDAs would not be that > hard on the FOSS platform, as that's another reason why we're still dual > booting to windows. > > openwave is very "open" to open source but still they are not creating WAP > emulators for linux. i heard WinWap has MMS and WAP Stack SDK for available > linux but WinWAP clients are still basically created for Windows. tsk tsk > tsk tsk _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
