Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Death knell for television as we know it
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>>| Japanese media reports say the new television, which is likely to run on
>>| the open source Linux operating system rather than Microsoft Windows to
>>| save boot-up time, could be on sale locally by next March.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/death-knell-for-television-as-we-know-it/2008/05/26/1211653917723.html
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>> Jim Ready recently wrote about televisions that increasingly run Linux.
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> The computer always was supposed to be a general purpose tool. A
> proprietary operating system is a little like having a socket-set which
> os 0.5mm larger than the standard one - nothing quite fits or works
> properly. Software patents are like a patent on a particular /way/ of
> using the tool, say, hitting a nail with a spanner is not allowed
> because company X has the patent on it, but if you hit a tack with the
> spanner, that's fine.
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> It's all insanity.
Can you confirm or deny that the Sony Bravia range ships with Linux?
(Just smething I read-past the other day)
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