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The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.
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Linux expert claims the open-source community will not make the mistakes of the Unix world.
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The electronics giant is releasing details of the internal architecture of a humanoid robot to help programmers write their own code.
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.
Commentary: Tablet PC isn't just a new Microsoft operating system -- it also changes the rules significantly, and could be just the thing the Redmond boys are looking for to send Linux spiralling away into insignificance.
The software giant talks up plans for embedded devices ranging from factory robots to slot machines.
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