Verizon Wireless considers Linux-based software a possible long-term contender for use on its phones, but doesn’t view it as a “preferred” solution, the carrier’s head said. LiMo software, a version of Linux created by a consortium of companies, would be the preferred software platform for its phones starting this year, but Chief Executive Lowell McAdam denied Wednesday that LiMo would have any special status. “We will not be in a position where we shun one operating system in favor [of] another operating system,” McAdam told reporters at a trade show in Las Vegas.
