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Linux Headed For Smartphone Domination?
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has published a summary of research findings from Zelos Group that predicts that Linux is going dominate the smartphone market, beating out both Symbian and Microsoft. Zelos says that Linux scored highest on the two criteria that matter most to OEMs and carriers: openness and low cost. Microsoft scored lowest in these criteria. The article says Zelos believes Symbian beats Microsoft due to the flexibility of its licensing terms, and Microsoft prospects will be stymied to an extent by its desire to strictly manage how its brand is used. The conclusion: Linux will be the preferred operating system for connected devices."
Did anyone else NOT see this coming? Linux is already dominating in the server market and desktop market, not to mention the embedded market. It was inevitable.
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Asked for a comment, SCO was quoted as saying "There's gotta be some blood in one of these stones."
The cost of a smartphone is high enough without having to add a $699 licensing fee payable to SCO..
Trolling is a art,
So with this phone, I get to grep for the girl's number I got last night, with Windows I get to grope the girl I met last night. Which one wins?
Asked for a comment, SCO was quoted as saying "There's gotta be some blood in one of these stones."
If you squeeze a stone hard enough, you'll break your hand.
The coolest voice ever.
Thanks! After drooling over his friend's smart phone that runs the 'evil' mircrosoft my husband now has an excuse to have a lovely linux smartphone top of his (insert occasion here) present list. Like he needed an excuse to bend my ears about how great Linux is!
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
Linux is also superior when it comes to hardware support - vendors of smartphones can easily add PCMCIA/Cardbus support, Ethernet jacks (using a wide variety of popular chipsets), and USB ports, without needing to write entirely new drivers. Linux's advanced APM support will also help - it's quite possible to imagine a Linux smartphone device that can wangle a day and a half of stand-by time out of an ordinary cellphone battery.
Now every time I go to the movies I'll have to type "sudo halt" instead of just powering down the phone.
Yes. The weight of flexable licensing is far greater than that of executive golf games and kickbacks. My company has never overlooked the technical merits of a product for a couple of free lunches. Ri-ight.
But will my phone have apt-get or up2date on it? :)
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
This development will enable Linux to dominate the
VibraCall phones market beating out sybian.
On a different note, I know that the "girl" said she'd let you grope "her". I would suggest checking ALL of "her" ports carefully before going further. What should be an input might instead be an output.
I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. You have to grep before you can grope. In fact if you grope before you grep, you can end up with la grippe. . Especially if you grope in a group.
Someone you trust is one of us.
to become a sysadmin just so they can answer a phone call...