governance model

In our industry the market dominant players often have the worst products, but that's pretty clearly not true for the Apache Foundation.

LiMo's transparent governance model and a critically important intellectual property (IP) safe harbor to refine the Foundation's common, Linux-based middleware platform -- while remaining entirely free to deliver their own compelling and differentiated services to mobile customers.

Linux kernel development is funded mostly by "enterprise" interests; yet, Linux is the top OS in devices and embedded systems.

Now, two "embedded" maintainers have been added, and an official "linux-embedded" mailing list launched, to ensure that embedded interests are represented under Linux's meritocratic governance model.