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Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers (NetworkWorld)
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a talk by Jim Zemlin. "The move by carriers to sell netbooks at a discount and seek revenue from later application downloads is an opportunity for Linux, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said at a Beijing forum. He urged Chinese and global companies to consider offering devices and download stores based on Linux."
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Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers (NetworkWorld) Posted Jun 30, 2009 17:52 UTC (Tue) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link]
wishful thinking. apps on linux are better when they are free. also the Big Guys at Redmond are not likely to allow this to happen.
Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers (NetworkWorld) Posted Jul 1, 2009 9:39 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
In this case it is the mobile carrier that wants to gain something. Specifically: an account with them for some time.
If they earn more than 100$ for such an account and you can get the price of such a netbook below 100$, they may actually get some extra customers.
Group pitches Linux for free netbooks from mobile carriers (NetworkWorld) Posted Jun 30, 2009 19:56 UTC (Tue) by dbruce (subscriber, #57948) [Link]
Don't you have to love their analyst saying that Windows will "continue to dominate netbooks" because of "slim software offerings" on Linux?
I have a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu and pretty much everyone I show it to is astonished that such a thing could exist for such a price, and that all of the software in Ubuntu could really be free of charge. The software-installation part is what blows them away. "You mean it just gets downloaded and installed for free, without a credit card number???"
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