Should Google Buy HP's PC Business? | Linux Today

Should Google Buy HP’s PC Business?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 19, 2011

“It would be way cool if Somebody Big stepped up for Linux, and
took over the PC bus that’s coasting along in the slow lane while
Apple rockets by in an aluminum-anodized blur. Who might that be?
There’s only one possibility: Google.

Hey, they just went vertical in the phone hardware business with
Motorola, which everybody’s calling Googlerola now. Why not with
PCs? Will we call that move gHooPle?


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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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