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____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 14 Jan 2010 17:33 : \____
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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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.
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>>> 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'.
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>> Google could not achieve this so quickly without Linux (peer production).
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> It provides a rapid way into the computing marketplace for anyone. The
> only real barrier now is the network effect and Microsoft's
> exit-barriers.
Motorola has just spent $100ml marketing Linux under the "Droid" name.
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