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____/ Terry Porter on Thursday 14 Jan 2010 02:05 : \____
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> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:50:05 -0800, nessuno wrote:
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>> Linux is shaping up as Microsoft's target in a potential war of
>> attrition to gain lost market share for Windows Mobile in handsets....
>>
>> The president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division Robbie
>> Bach, who presided over last year's drop in Windows Mobile's market
>> share, said Linux will fall below the quality bar needed to succeed in
>> mobile handsets....
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> Past and present Android sales put the gun to the head of Robbie Bachs
> statement.
>
> Microsoft are just full of loaded emotive phrases with no real world
> substance.
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> 'Quality bar' indeed.
>
> Linux is already way above the 'quality bar' for hundreds of millions of
> embedded devices sold every year, and mobile phones are no different.
>
> Linux is also above the 'cost bar', 'developer bar', 'openness bar', and
> 'bleeding edge bar'.
Google could not achieve this so quickly without Linux (peer production).
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