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Is software freedom a necessity or a distraction when it comes to consumer devices?
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| There has been a fair bit of hand-ringing
| recently about free and open source
| softwareâs impact on mobile phones and
| other consumer devices. Lysandra Ohrstrom
| of the SFLC last week celebrated the
| increased use of FOSS on devices available
| at the Consumer Electronics Show, but
| lamented the fact that often the user does
| not get to âshare, tinker, and adapt the
| devicesâ. Meanwhile Bradley M Kuhn recently
| warned that âwe are in a very precarious
| time with regard to the freedom of mobile
| devicesâ while Glyn Moody questioned
| whether it is healthy that most Android
| applications are closed-source.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/01/20/is-software-freedom-a-necessity-or-a-distraction-when-it-comes-to-consumer-devices/
Android, Linux & Real-time Development for Embedded Systems
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| Android is an application framework on top
| of Linux. We will look at the details of
| the layers of the framework, shortly. It is
| supplied as open source code, but does not
| bind the user with the constraints of the
| GPL " there is no requirement for
| developers to make public any code
| developed using Android.
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http://www.embedded.com/design/222301508
Let There Be Rock: Digital Guitar Better Than The Real Thing?
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| Believe it or not, this electronic guitar
| is actually a Gentoo Linux box, running a
| 500MHz AMD Geode processor, an 8.4-inch,
| 800Ã600 LCD touch screen with an SSH server
| and a MIDI output. It is made of milled,
| solid plastic, and could probably be hooked
| up to Rock Band. But that is to rob it of
| the romance.
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/let-there-be-rock-digital-guitar-better-than-the-real-thing/
Recent:
Windows Stationary Usurped by Linux Android, Moblin
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| LG announced that more than half its new
| smartphones will use Android, the common
| operating system among the Nexus One, Droid,
| G1, and so on.
|
| Windows Mobile seems like Windows Stationary,
| as Microsoft's Version 7 of its operating
| system seems to be MIA. In the interim, the
| business ecosystems of the iPhone and Android
| and even Moblin continue to grow and perhaps
| flourish. Capturing huge marketshare is what
| Microsoft is all about, so I find it head-
| scratchingly strange that Windows Mobile is so
| far behind.
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http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/92668/windows-stationary-usurped-linux-android-moblin
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