{"id":196238,"date":"2008-05-14T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/14\/verizon-supports-linux-for-handsets\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:36:00","slug":"verizon-supports-linux-for-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/14\/verizon-supports-linux-for-handsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Supports Linux for Handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon&#8217;s joining <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/djf500\/200805141051DOWJONESDJONLINE000620_FORTUNE5.htm\">the LiMo Foundation<\/a> (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Li<\/span>nux <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mo<\/span>bile)<\/p>\n<p>Some people were expecting them to go with Google&#8217;s &#8220;Android&#8221;, but there are some reasons to go LiMo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s further along, with some handsets deployed.<\/li>\n<li>After Google&#8217;s driving up the bidding high enough to require open access in the spectrum auction, Verizon wanted to do a &#8220;screw you&#8221; to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to my friends in the biz, Verizon is the most locked down of the carriers&#8230;.We&#8217;ll see how it proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon&#8217;s joining the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile) Some people were expecting them to go with Google&#8217;s &#8220;Android&#8221;, but there are some reasons to go LiMo: It&#8217;s further along, with some handsets deployed. After Google&#8217;s driving up the bidding high enough to require open access in the spectrum auction, Verizon wanted to do a &#8220;screw you&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}