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IBM Picks Qtopia Over PalmOS And PocketPC

Posted by timothy on from the please-send-a-sample dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "ZDNet, Geek.com and others are reporting IBM's decision to choose Trolltech's Qtopia (the embedded version of their Qt library, used by the Sharp Zaurus PDA) in their forthcoming devices. See the announcement at Trolltech's website, and an earlier press release at IBM.com." Here's an earlier post about the new IBM reference platform.

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  1. FP @!@!@# by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP!! TODDLER VOMIT FOREVER!!

  2. 8==(,,,)==D ~* ~o ~~O by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, you jerked off.

  3. Re:Quite a shift by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hooray for IBM!

    Stifling innovation in the tech world for almost a century!

    It was Microsoft who wrestled the computer world from the headlock IBM had it in.

    You should be on your knees sucking their wangs and kissing their ass. Well two out of three aint bad.

  4. Hint to micheal de incasa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fix the fucking file dialogue if you wan't people to take your shitty gnome desktop seriously. Its not rocket science, its true. KDE is way ahead of gnome, and gnome is probably catching up to kde 1.2, but as a long term linux user, I DO KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!

    Want to know why apple picked khtml over gtk/mozilla, its because people want proper file dialogues!

  5. Re:Strange thing about IBM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yes, the acronym's original meaning was Intellectuals Blowing Men.

  6. 8==(,,,)==D ~* ~o ~~O by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    in YOUR ear!!!

  7. x-windows by MisterFancypants · · Score: -1, Troll
    x-windows SUCKS. Yes, it DOES!

    Don't give me that shit about network transparency either. That's something that should ride on top of the APIs as with a Windows Terminal Services solution... Not something that should be part of the core windowing solution, slowing every part of the GUI down to a fucking crawl even for people who will never use it.

  8. Re:This can hardly be a surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or that counting machine they gave Hitler to keep track of the Jew count. Those bastards at IBM sure do engage in some evil practices. First they're killing Jews. Now they're having sex with Richard Stallman and not charging anything for it! What a bunch of jackoffs.

  9. Re:Quick Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Spoken as a true gnome taliban! Have you ever tried to compare the kde file dialogs with those of gtk?

  10. Re:Quite a shift by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Two coco-butts, a body slam and a pile driver later and Microsoft emerges from the squared circle victorious as the world's champion stifler of innovation. Waaaaaarrrrrr!!.

  11. Slashdot. Where do you want to go today? by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll
    IMB is obviously a bunch of idiot mother fuckers because they turned down PalmOS which is the superior operating system of choice for all products that require an operating system and instead proceeded to choose this stupid Qtopia thing over the PalmOS operating system platform which I consider to be a very poor and stupid decision when you consider the fact that like I said before in this post somewhere that like PalmOS is like superior and shit when compared to this Qtopia thing that I have never seen before but neither have I seen that PalmOS thing as I have never used one of the devices that uses it but I think that it would be kind of cool if people like Sony and shit provided PalmOS preinstalled on your computer when you but it at the store instead of putting that stupid windows thing on there instead.

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