Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun

Jun 20, 2009, 15:02 (19 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Pamela Jones)

""In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They want to promote open source and Linux. But if you begin from the PC you are afraid of Microsoft. They try to go to the smart phone or PDA to start again."

"Taiwanese OEMs would love an alternative to Windows, but the sale comes first, before production. The chicken comes first. And since the chicken belongs to Microsoft, the penguin is helpless here."

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