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Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET

Posted by Unknown on from the everyone's-a-winner dept.

Jono Bacon writes "This week at Mobile World Congress both Firefox OS and Ubuntu have been wooing the audience with their mobile offerings. CNET reviewed both and felt that Ubuntu was 'the clear winner.' From the article, 'The team thought that Ubuntu Touch, the tablet version of which we got our hands-on for the first time at MWC, feels more like the complete package at this point. We liked its slick, elegant interface that makes use of every side of the screen and puts your content and contacts front and center, minimizing the time spent hopping back to a home screen.'" They still liked Firefox OS though, and the mere existence of multiple Free Software mobile systems with carrier support is a good sign if you ask me.

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  1. But but but by noobermin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ubuntu is evil! Richard Stallman says so!!

    1. Re:But but but by mhall119 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If by "like they are with the desktop" you mean "not at all", then the answer is yes. If you mean something else, then then answer is "you're wrong".

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    2. Re:But but but by exomondo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I lost a lot of respect for Stallman when he sunk to the RIAA/MPAA level with statements like 'proprietary software is unethical because it takes away users' rights', of course it doesn't take away anything, just like music piracy doesn't take away profits like the RIAA/MPAA claim, they can't take away something of yours if it's something you never had in the first place. You may not have been granted rights you would otherwise get with free software, but nothing was taken away.

    3. Re:But but but by fredprado · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But it does. Proprietary software enforces controlled standards, locked systems, treacherous computing like UEFI. It ends taking away the user ability to make choices and to even know what his system is doing. And if you leave it unchecked you won`t have choices because control gives economical power and economical power pushes for more control. UEFI is an example. Soon it will be hard to find computers without it, and soon enough it may be impossible. Little by little we are having our choices eroded by progressively more restrictive hardware with closed specifications, because hardware producers go to bed with big software corporations.

    4. Re:But but but by exomondo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Proprietary software enforces controlled standards, locked systems, treacherous computing like UEFI.

      Rubbish, if i run a proprietary application on my system i don't end up with a 'locked system', it doesn't enforce any 'controlled standards' and I don't end up with UEFI. I haven't had anything taken away, even if it does aid your agenda to suggest that.

  2. Fragmentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the mere existence of multiple Free Software mobile systems with carrier support is a good sign if you ask me.

    Actually the mere existence of multiple such systems fragments the market for them, thus reducing the already-slim chance they have of becoming real competitors to the established players in the market.

    1. Re:Fragmentation by ozmanjusri · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In 1997?

      Proprietary vendors keep spreading this FUD, as "fragmentation" is core to Linux/FOSS adoption. Freedom and opportunity for choice in the Linux world means anyone can start their own distro, or fork an existing one to meet their own needs. To many of us, this is one of the truly great benefits of the open source world.

      OS vendors like Microsoft and Apple have a sales/distribution model that's antithetical to this sort of freedom, so it's in their best interest to portray one of Linux's great advantages as a negative. Hence the more than a decade's worth of FUD.

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  3. c|net? by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why the hell are still linking to c|net articles again? Would it kill the editors to wait for a real news organization to review Ubuntu Touch instead of just posting the first crap that comes along?

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  4. WebApp API by alexandre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just hope that Tizen, Ubuntu, FirefoxOS et al. can agree on a common WebApp API...

    1. Re:WebApp API by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Thats the nice thing about standards, there are so many of them.

      I would add Webkit to that list.

      And something that the people of Ubuntu should agree on UI components with the people of Sailfish (that was also in that show), and KDE plasma active (and maybe Blackberry and WebOS), making it easier to port apps between different mobile OSs (i.e. like this calculator).

      Once you can have everywhere the apps that you want, you are free choose the best OS that fits better in your device/needs.