Google says no need for LiMo Foundation – Android is doing fine

With the LiMo Foundation busy recruiting Mobile Linux developers, you might expect Google to join in the fun.  Google’s Android, after all, is probably the most high profile Linux-based mobile OS and certainly the most highly anticipated.

Google, though, has other ideas.

Speaking at the Linux World conference in San Francisco, Google’s Eric Chu said that the company was not looking to join forces with rivals.

“Unification for the sake of unification is not the path we decided to go down,” said Chu at a Linux World ‘Mobile Marketplace’ panel discussion.

Chu also downplayed suggestions that Android development was slowing and the OS would not be ready for a Christmas 2008 releases, claiming that the code was 80% complete.

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