____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 13 March 2008 23:15 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
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> wrote
> on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:47:39 GMT
> <faiCj.23100$XI.2421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Open Networks, Open Platforms Seen As Mobile Industry's Future
>>>
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>>> | Google's Android operating system and VoIP applications like Skype will
>>> | be major contributors, a panel of communications experts predicts.
>>> `----
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>>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903247&subSection=News
>>
>>
>> Why do they rant its Linux when the apps are not native Linux
>> applications?
>
> ??
>
> I see no rant here at all, except a plea for continued Net
> neutrality (briefly put, the Net should not discriminate
> against the competition when it comes to routing packets,
> data, or both).
>
> It turns out the MPAA has a slightly different opinion...
>
> ($100/month?? And I thought cable was bad...)
>
>>
>> The future of mobile is going to happen ONLY with
>> Linux and Linux based telephony applications with standard
>> PC developer systems like gcc, gtk / kde.
>
> Debatable, though no other freeware OS is really ready to
> step into the breach at this point.
>
>>
>> The longer they resist the more time and money they loose.
>>
>
> We'll see. Certainly the Orange Phone isn't exactly
> getting a lot of buzz anymore. ;-) But Symbian still holds
> a goodly fraction of the market, last I looked, although
> Google's Android looks poised to make a run for it.
Did you see what happened to Nokia after this week's disappointing outlook from
TI? Either way, the worry is that Nokia is a little too close to Microsoft.
Microsoft DRM, anti-Ogg, Silverfish, pro-software patents, etc. This kind of
ruins the upsides like Maemo and Qt.
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