linuxpundit.wordpress.com - 5/18/2009
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A strategic error made by purveyors of Linux netbooks was to covet the volumes of the global mobile telephony market while following the business models and channels of the legacy notebook marketplace.
microsoftontheissues.com - 5/18/2009
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microsoftontheissues.com —
Posted by Horacio Gutierrez Corporate Vice President and
Deputy General Counsel On May 14, Microsoft and the...
Linux Foundation sent a joint letter to the American Law Institute to express our shared concerns with the group’s draft Principles of the Law ...
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Different Business Models, Common Concerns
linux.slashdot.org - 5/18/2009
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An anonymous reader writes "Every now and then
a new- or old-media journalist tries to explain to...
everyone why Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. However all those men who graduated from their engineering universities years ago have only ...
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Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop
blogs.zdnet.com - 5/19/2009
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Linux Pundit Bill Weinberg has produced two posts
this weekend asking why we don’t have Linux laptops,...
what I would call Netbooks running Linux . His answers are conventional. Microsoft price cuts. Ubuntu looked less than impressive. Maybe ...
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Linux and the channel
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Linux and the channel
Open Source —
Linux Pundit Bill Weinberg has produced two posts this weekend asking why we don’t have Linux laptops, what I would call Netbooks running Linux.
His answers are conventional. Microsoft price cuts. Ubuntu looked less than impressive. Maybe it will go from the phone up rather than the desk down, he concludes.
The answer, I’ve found, comes down to one of the first terms I learned when I joined the computer press, over 25 years ago.
The channel.
We think of stores as being the home of demand. They ...
Linux Netbooks: Hit Microsoft where it ain't
The Open Road —
... For this reason, I agree wholeheartedly with Bill Weinberg's suggestion that Linux's opportunity in Netbooks is to focus on the mobile side of the market, rather than bringing a traditional, personal computer bent to the market. ...
Linux Netbooks: What's the Secret Sauce for Sales?
OStatic blogs —
... , Linux pundit Bill Weinberg is pondering whether Linux will survive as an OS for netbooks. Many of the early netbooks from Asus were Linux-based, and I saw Asus netbooks running Linux this past weekend at my local Target store, but there are still a lot of questions about whether there will be much of a forward-going market for Linux netbooks. Blankenhorn makes the point that the sales channel is a problem: "I tried out some Linux laptops last year and, while there were some glitches they held promise. But when it came time for me to lay down cash, there was no Linux kit ...
Linux Netbooks: What's the Secret Sauce for Sales? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... , Linux pundit Bill Weinberg is pondering whether Linux will survive as an OS for netbooks. Many of the early netbooks from Asus were Linux-based, and I saw Asus netbooks running Linux this past weekend at my local Target store, but there are still a lot of questions about whether there will be much of a forward-going market for Linux netbooks. Blankenhorn makes the point that the sales channel is a problem: "I tried out some Linux laptops last year and, while there were some glitches they held promise. But when it came time for me to lay down ...
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