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Industry leaders to unify the Symbian mobile platform and set it free Foundation to be established to provide royalty-free open platform and accelerate innovation

1. Linux is free, open-source platform operating system that’s being developed by engineers all over the world.

2. Linux is not 1 operating system, there are hundreds of different Linux systems including embedded Linux.

3. Google is supporting embedded Linux for mobile phones with its Android platform with thousands of app builders.

4. In 5 years, all desktop applications will be available online, there will be no need to use Microsoft Outlook, Word, or any of that shit.

5. Linux is already taking near 50% market of mini-notebooks, netbooks, whatever.

6. Linux is now picking up more pace with major manufacturers such as Samsung, Asus, etc…etc…

7. Linux is unlimited, Windows is limited to EXE files.

8. Over 50% of web servers in the world already run Linux, proving the stability of the operating system.

9. Linux is about freedom, Windows is about Money.

10. Mac already runs an operating system similar to Linux, based on a unix-like structure.

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<sep/>Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data<sep/>

이래서 경쟁이 좋은 것이다.

I was reading Marguerite Reardon’s piece on CNET just now, which made me think about what it will take for Google to win.

1) Permission to believe on distribution. The list of early partners was obviously newsworthy, but Google is going to have to show continuing momentum here. They don’t have to deliver the entire universe of operators, or even the US, as some have said. But continuing drumbeats of momentum will create permission to believe and free up capital to build new apps.

2) Killer app(s). Every new platform needs at least one user experience that was not available before elsewhere, a reason for customers to buy something. For DOS is was Lotus 1-2-3. For RIM it was email anywhere. This customer desire for an application is what forces customer-owning gatekeepers (in this case the carriers) to forego their natural greed and appropriate desire to maintain proprietary differentiation. Developers, developers, and more developers (i.e. having a range of different offerings for the long tail of humanity) are important, but a very small number of killer apps makes the platform. If you want to know if something has, or is, a killer app, ask yourself whether you would buy it for someone as a present.

3) No friction, developer-friendly distribution and deployment. (i.e. use the Web). Why are there so many more brains writing code for the web than for mobile devices, when the mobile world is potentially so much bigger? Working through carriers to get a mobile app in front of users is a nightmare. If Google can use its leverage and capital to make this simpler (maybe a hosted virtual service exchange? Google’s long awaited answer to EC2?) Android wins, big time.

4) The Right Stack. If the alien stuff supports web/mashup development and ties into Google’s impressive collection of gadgetry this will appeal to the larger webdev audience, if it is also Java based, it will suck in the current mobile app code base which is significantly smaller but more leveraged. Thierry Brethes of Unyverse does a good job of laying out the run time options in his comment to the CNET story. I think it’s likely Google gets this right, and Ajax and Java are both supported, to bring in both the new world and the old.

The CNET piece comes coincident with the “leak” of screenshots of “What’s Open” this morning. I am even more impressed by Andy Rubin’s slow reveal. Again all this for an SDK…it’s really masterful. SteveB declaring Microsoft the incumbent is an appeal to calculated reason, but note that you don’t see Apple (the perceived thought leader in mobile platforms) even acknowledging Google’s efforts at the moment.

Maybe Apple gets that it’s not about facts, but about hearts, minds, permission to believe, and most of all hope. And as most hetero males know so well, few things stoke the fires of hope like a slow reveal.

Eclipse - Open Development Platform

an open development platform

Eclipse - an open development platform

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several piec

intranet and platform open source solutions including Plone, by Toby Ward, Prescient Digital Media.

KDiff3 is a program that compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-con

DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring System.

mpgtx a command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox, that slices and joins audio and video files, including MPEG1, MPEG2 and MP3.