Sendo Can't Get Microsoft Source; Ditches Windows

An anonymous submitter wrote: "Just when you thought the award-winning data leech Microsoft had become invincible... cellphone manufacturer Sendo, in a statement on the front page of its web site, announces the termination of its Z100 smartphone development on the Microsoft platform, licensing the rival Symbian from Nokia instead. (Further reports by ZDnet and Heise.)"

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that's not the issue

[jacquesm]

1) businesses cancel deals all the time
2) for every deal like this that sinks ms will probably ink three more
3) there is NO way we are going to get the open source boat any further by talking about the supposed evil of the competition, it takes ACTION
4) the best way you can take action is probably by taking one of the toy applications that are currently available for the 'free' os's and turn it into something real, it's a level playingfield out there.
5) nobody stops you from attacking redmond on their own turf by say working all out on a competitor for office, which is much more of a stronghold than the os will ever be.

Case in point, I just downloaded knoppix, and the msword viewer/editor that comes with it can not even properly display the simplest word documents.

And in the past lack of openness from manufacturers was no deterrent to developing applications compatible with their products, reverse assembly is perfectly acceptable.

So, stop whining and start working.

Re:that's not the issue

[jacquesm]

kmail: toy (can't even handle my 5 years of archived mail without crashing, eudora does the same just fine)
kword: toy (ANY word document I opened so far came out wrong, it shouldn't even be released from what I can see. The poster above seems to have had a lot more luck, but that doesn't help me does it ?)

and so on... better to have LESS packages that really work than lots of packages that are half-assed