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Open source community wades into Ubuntu phone

KDE’s Plasma Active team leader Aaron Seigo wrote on his blog that his eyebrows were raised when he saw Canonical’s press release and saw that the Ubuntu code will deliver a mobile, tablet, desktop or TV experiences depending on what device it is installed on, or where it is docked.

Seigo, having looked at the code behind Ubuntu’s Unity interface, thinks Canonical’s claim is hollow because the new phone will be based on QML, which Unity isn’t.

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