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Re: [News] Cringely Believes Google's GNU/Linux a Microsoft Killer

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____/ JeffM on Friday 27 Nov 2009 19:02 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>Google is about to give away computers
>>http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16559/1/
> 
> In Slashdot's coverage of this,
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/24/1517229&mode=nested&threshold=5&lowbandwidth=1
> editor Timothy specifically mentioned the iOpener
> and another commenter mentioned Free-PC.com.
> Both projects quickly went belly up
> as folks hacked and repurposed the cheap/free hardware.
> 
> Note: The iOpener story was my introduction to Slashdot
> which I found via Googling for something else.

Google has said that only particular systems will be able to run the O/S,
so they might attempt TiVoization. Also, they will have to have some basic
cost. Not even razors (bar blades) are given away free of charge.

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