"Wephone" Spells "Debian" in Plaid | Linux Today

“Wephone” Spells “Debian” in Plaid

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2008

“A Canadian firm will soon announce a phone whose plaid case
spells ‘Debian’ in Morse Code. Developed by Koolu, whose CTO is Jon
‘maddog’ Hall, the touchphone-based ‘W.E. Phone’ runs Google Apps
on top of the Android Java stack on top of Debian.

“The ‘W.E.’ moniker is based on the company’s motto, ‘Works
Everywhere,’ says maddog, who is CTO and ‘ambassador’ to Koolu.
‘Besides,’ said maddog, ‘Instead of ‘I Phone’ or ‘You Phone,’ we
thought it could be ‘W.E. Phone…””

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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