Yayasan LiMo Foundation telah mempublikasi sebuah white paper [25 hal. PDF] tentang nilai ekonomi dari partisipasi dalam komunitas pengembangan platform Linux Mobile (LiMo). Dokumen yang dirilis dalam Agustus 2009 menganalisa keuntungan ekonomi terutama berkaitan dengan platform LiMo.

Executive Summary

• It is possible to use quantitative techniques to examine a number of the proposed economic benefits of Open Source software. The claimed benefits are a reduction in cost of acquisition, access to innovation and cost of ownership of software technology.
• The quantitative techniques we use to conduct our analysis are based on measuring source lines of code (SLOC) applied to publicly accessible open source project repositories. To aid our analysis, we have developed a command line tool to mine information on open source projects using the ohloh1 web service.
• Based on this analysis, there is a strong case for constructive engagement with open source communities where the corresponding open source software components are used within a collaboratively developed, open mobile software platform such as the LiMo Platform™.
• There is additionally a case for mobile software platform providers to consider using certain strategic open source projects as the basis for development of new functionality on their roadmap.
• There is no proven case within this analysis for converting existing proprietary items already within a mobile software platform to open source. To conduct a cost-benefit analysis of that scenario would require examination of more factors than SLOC alone.

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Tentang LiMo Foundation:
   LiMo Foundation adalah sebuah konsorsium industri dengan dedikasi 
untuk menciptakan platform perangkat mobile berbasis Linux, yang 
benar-benar open dan hardware-independent. Di dukung oleh pemeran 
utama industri, menempatkan LiMo sebagai pusat di Mobile Industry 
yang sekaligus menjadikan LiMo sebagai sebuah gabungan kekuatan 
di lingkungan Mobile Linux.
   Platform perangkat mobile berbasis Linux yang dapat digunakan oleh 
semua industri global untuk memproduksi perangkat mobile dan 
diciptakan berkat kondisi dan kontribusi yang seimbang dan transparant, 
merupakan misi utama yang diemban LiMo Foundation.