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'White Box' Makers Take Up The Slack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dude-you're-getting-a-house-brand dept.

n3hat writes: "This story in the business section of the Baltimore Sun points out that the 'pooter bidness isn't as bad as the publicly-traded companies report. Seems that as much as 45% of systems are assembled by screwdriver shops and other white-box makers, not the big guys." No huge surprises here.

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  1. Re:Grammar Police. by macshit · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ok, well I realize that part of the grammar police's job (whoo, note the apostrophe!) is to be mindlessly pedantic and constantly out of touch with how people actually use language, but c'mon (again!) -- `A foo's a foo' is a common everyday idiom that even you can't (!) have missed.

    Methinks you've (...) been spending too much time down at the linguistic donut shop (overindulging in ripe, sweaty, heaving adjectives)....

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