Google and Linux Join Forces for Google OS
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| If Google is smart, they would run a mad TV campaign to capture the
| frustration of Windows and Apple computer’s overall cost. Taking a page from
| the old days of PeoplePC, Google would take a hit on giving away low-end PCs
| in exchange for increasing their marketing reach in such a way to eventually
| overshadow anything Microsoft would have done in the home market in the next
| five years.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2587&Itemid=449
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Gears of War
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| The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2168419/nav/tap3/rss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7747894@N05/530284454/in/set-72157600310669314/
Red Hat - not losing Dell but gaining a Google
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| And now the good news, rumours are floating about of a deal between Red
| Hat and fluffy online search behemoth Google with various tie-ups being
| touted including Red Hat's latest operating system -- RHEL 5 -- or a
| version there of -- being used as the OS for a Google phone?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005260o-2000331759b,00.htm
Google goes its own way
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| He says using open source gives Google a competitive advantage,
| since its engineers can customise the software as they see fit,
| for example by creating the Goobuntu flavour of the Ubuntu Linux
| distribution. This makes their applications run more
| efficiently.
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| [...]
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| "Good friendly distributions with good friendly community members"
| is the way to convince consumers to choose Linux over Windows for
| their desktops," he says. "It's legitimate for people to be
| suspicious of free things. I think it scares people away
| sometimes."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3949278a28.html
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