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Hunting Penguins in the Desert: The CES Report (Linux Journal)
Doc Searls has posted another in a series of reports from the Consumer Electronics Show over at the Linux Journal.
"So here's a question. Out of 2,300+ exhibitors, how many do you think mentioned 'Linux' in their descriptions of what they were up to at the show? A couple hundred? Fifty?
Try eleven."
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Hunting Penguins in the Desert: The CES Report (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 17, 2004 17:09 UTC (Wed) by jimwelch (guest, #178) [Link] He showed picuters of Unication's wireless medis-center set-top box running linux, but the Company website shows nothing yet.
Hunting Penguins in the Desert: The CES Report (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 17, 2004 20:13 UTC (Wed) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link] The sad part is that many of these products are probably built around a Linux embedded core.
Hunting Penguins in the Desert: The CES Report (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 17, 2004 21:08 UTC (Wed) by jbh (subscriber, #494) [Link] Yup:"D-Link had a similar story: Sure, they have Linux in their stuff. It was like, Why even bring it up? You'd think I was asking if their gear came with power cords or Ethernet jacks. So, it's clear that Linux is fast becoming a pure infrastructural commodity--like the air we breathe. Why promote what's best taken for granted? Thus, take Linux's decreasing visibility as the inverse of its ubiquity."
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