Qualcomm to support Linux
Mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm said on Thursday that it will support Linux, marking another key company to back the open source software on handsets.
Qualcomm joins number two handset maker Motorola, Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo and other major wireless companies in endorsing Linux.
The mobile phone industry generally yawned in 2003 when number one handset maker Nokia began a push to use Linux, which at the time was a radical departure in an industry where the software that powers phones was always proprietary. Ongoing development work has apparently smoothed over many of the early problems that Linux had adapting to the mobile phone environment.
