Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Google's Secret Weapon
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "[Google is] an example of a company that literally couldn't have
> | existed in the same form pre-Linux or pre-open source," says Jim Zemlin,
> | executive director of The Linux Foundation -- the organization that pays
> | Linus Torvalds to work on the Linux kernel. "If they had to rely on
> | Microsoft or Sun, not only would it have been too expensive, they could
> | not have done the modifications necessary to create their services."
What they are really saying is that micoshaft will have stolen
their ideas, put out competing products
and not given them the chance to succeed by shovelling s*itty code
with back doors, time bombs, software missles, unauthorized payloads
in updates, deception, anti-competitive practices, monopoly
enhancing redirections of business income flow and anti-trust
compatible loonacy to boot filled into every crevice of business
operations and customer service.
Now it appears Linux is gonna kill all the fan boyees of micoshaft
instead.
> | The last point is confirmed by Google's Open Source Programs Manager
> | Chris DiBona, who joined the company in August 2004 to oversee and
> | coordinate its open source activities: "The thing about open source
> | [is], it's kind of like it's yours. Considering that Google does an
> | insane amount of software development, if we had to have some of the
> | restrictions that heavily proprietary would present us, we couldn't
> | develop at the speed that we do."
> `----
>
> http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=2395
>
> Google releases Android SDK
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers
> | can use to create cell-phone applications for the company?s Android
> | mobile platform.
> `----
>
> http://www.macworld.com/article/61005/2007/11/androidsdk.html
>
>
> Related:
>
> Why Google sponsored Android is set to be a market force
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Conversely, the report notes that Android will be less attractive to
> | those that want Linux as a kernel with their own differentiated
> | applications. ?Android may induce handset manufacturers to differentiate
> | more on hardware-specific features, such as usability, enhancing the Web
> | experience,? the analysts said.
> `----
>
> http://www.cpilive.net/v3/inside.aspx?scr=n&NID=1836&cat=TOP
20STORY&pub=COMPUTER%20NEWS%20MIDDLE%20EAST&k=mobility
> %20google
> http://tinyurl.com/2qb4dt
>
>
> What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant
> | development
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to
> | pick one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
> | applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile
> | phone compatible with those standards.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | What Android means for open source and Linux
> | Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
> | Google and the Open Handset Alliance ? which has 34 member organisations
> | worldwide ? adds to the momentum.
> |
> | "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn
> | of the Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing
> | presence there. I think having the Google software as an additional open
> | source option is only going to accelerate that adoption."
> `----
>
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
>
>
> Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
> | didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director
> | for the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
> | numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
> | handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson
> | said.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
>
>
> Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
> | source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to
> | the Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement
> | earlier this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers,
> | handset makers, software developers and hardware providers to use an
> | open source mobile platform, Android.
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>
> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
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