[maemo-developers] Intel's Internet Mobile Device

[From: Neil Jerram]

"Pablo Chacin" <pablochacin at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I just came across this news at Endgatget.
> http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/109417695/
>
> Here a technical the presentation:
> https://intel.wingateweb.com/published/UMGS003/UMGS003_100eng.pdf
>
> Looks interesting. Same approach than Nokia. They actually even plan to use
> Hildon.

And they claim to have 20+ applications ready to go, many (according
to the gallery) apparently Hildonized.

If those applications are free software, it may be trivial to port
them over to the 770 / N800 ...

I may be being over-dramatic, but this feels to me like crunch time
for Nokia.  They will either decide now to accept the potential of
their platform and go fully free -- or they will batten down the
hatches in any way they can, in an attempt to prevent other players
from leveraging their work.

Regards,
     Neil