The state of the swag at LinuxWorld San Francisco
While at LinuxWorld, I was contemplating how IBM's multi-billion dollar investment in free software has born fruit in the form of their hard sought after two inch rubber tux, when I met up with Robin Miller who interviewed me on the quality of this year's swag.
Officially, this year's theme was mobile computing, although virtualization also predominated. I found the topic of mobile computing particularly timely given the introduction of GNU Telephony for Open Embedded earlier this year, which makes our existing library frameworks, and eventually applications built from it like the excellent Twinkle softphone, portable to handheld devices and cell phones.
This year's LinuxWorld in San Francisco may well be defined by those vendors who chose not to attend. What is to be made of the absence of both RedHat and Microsoft? Also, given this year's focus on mobile computing, it was odd to not see local vendor MontaVista. Although, Motorola was showing MontaVista based cell phones, and there were plenty of surviving MontaVista employees at all the important free beer events after the show, including the one held by PalmSource, who seemed to believe that it could gain developer mindshare by the keg.
Given this theme, it is interesting that the most important work in mobile and handheld Linux kernel based computing was not represented at LinuxWorld at all. I am speaking of purely FOSS based efforts like Open Embedded, which focus on developing complete free and open source solutions.
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