Linux Amarok offers media player support to Palm Pre

[Dark Star]

Amarok one of the most popular media player for Linux has offered support to Palm newly released Pre [Linux based] smart-phone. The Open letter is in response to apple refusal to provide Palm pre support in iTunes, amarok developers came to the stage and offered support to pre . Amarok developers are looking determined to provide support Palm pre and become the official media player for the same.

If palm reacts positively towards this could turn very good for Amarok and linux in general ..

"You're in the business of selling phones, not software. I don't think deciding to 'outsource' this to Apple was a smart move though. So now the bully is attacking you on *their* playground... You could go crying to the [lawsuit court]. But if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Amarok team!" He adds: "We promise not to change our application to prevent users [from using] Amarok with your device." Wrote Dutch KDE developer Bart "Stecchino" Cerneels

To support the Open Letter published by Dutch developer, Amarok team and Dot.KDE.org news channel came up with official announcement and are looking adamant to provide support.

It would be pretty easy to offer support for a Linux based handset thus you can hope for full support either in Amarok 2.2 or 2.3 if Palm agrees to the proposal.

More Details : The Business Of Free | KDE.news

 

[vishalrao]

I think KDE and QT are going to be strong platform leaders very soon indeed. See the Nokia buyout of Trolltech. Good for Linux and open source