Mobile technology companies plan joint Linux platform

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Mobile technology companies plan joint Linux platform

6/15/2006 7:27:21 PM, by Ryan Paul

A group of mobile phone companies including Vodafone, DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung NEC, and Panasonic, have announced plans to collaboratively develop an open, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. In an attempt to decrease market fragmentation, benefit from community involvement, and avoid the high costs associated with proprietary mobile software solutions, the prominent mobile technology companies hope to facilitate the construction of a complete platform for mobile software development including an API specification, a complete reference implementation, and a comprehensive set of associated development tools.

More at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060615-7070.html
 
so wtf is wrong with the existing platform, i.e. Mobilinux (http://www.mobilinux.com/)? Why must every company and consortium in creation insist on creating yet another linux based platform,flavour or distribution?
 
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