10 reasons why Microsoft must buy Palm (Betanews)

For some end-of-year amusement: Betanews advises Microsoft to buy Palm as a way of getting back into the smartphone market. "Microsoft should offer an open-source mobile operating system -- and WebOS would be it. A proprietary OS is less appealing when a good open-source alternative (Android) is available. Microsoft has too much valuable intellectual property tied into Windows Mobile for an open-source effort. But WebOS would be an easy open-source project."

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