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Conflicting Opinions on Windows Mobile: Open Source or Open FUD?

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Oct 1, 2008

[ Thanks to Matt Asay
for this link. ]

“It sounds like Windows Mobile should be free, and not
because of any strategy to counter open-source Symbian (Nokia) or
open-source Linux (Google). No, Microsoft should be giving it away
because its Windows Mobile operating system is potty, despite a
decade of effort to improve it. Microsoft has tried to replicate
the desktop Windows experience on the handheld.”

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Matt Asay

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