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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 16:45 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 03 Jan 2010 23:18 : \____
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>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>>>> Looking forward to 2010. Part 1 â Killing Windows Mobile to save it.
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>>>>>> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014697o-2000675210b,00.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 10 reasons why Microsoft must buy Palm now
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>>>>>> http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/10-reasons-why-Microsoft-must-buy-Palm-now/1262120907
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>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't I just say this yesterday? Anyway, MS and Palm are probably on
>>>>> their last legs... Palm might well recover, but only if MS let them get
>>>>> on with it.
>>>>
>>>> Palm uses a lot of GPL code now. Microsoft won't buy that.
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>>>
>>> Not without rebuilding their business model, for sure. It will take a
>>> very brave senior management board to do what's really required at
>>> Microsoft.
>>>
>>>> Imagine Microsoft as a Linux /distributor/!
>>>
>>> It's tough, I agree. Can you imagine just how much re-training they'd
>>> need for all of their staff, from the back-end support folk through to
>>> the front-end sales, and everyone in between.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Remember what happened to SCO/Caldera claims after they had distributed
>>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> To be fair, that was MS funded, though.
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>> They've had it going for over 6 years. That's the best $30 million or so
>> they've ever spent. Microsoft did something similar with TomTom and others.
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> I thought TomTom ended up paying MS for the use of the fat filesystem?
> Something since found to be unenforcable, afairc.
They paid half a million.
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