Linux vs Windows . . . TomTom GPS
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| So, here you go, TomTom. Get your PR department
| out of the Service department, and start thinking
| of where you get your money. Do you REALLY want
| to forego the income you could make by supporting
| the very operating system that you use?
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| TomTom uses Linux. But TomTom doesn’t want to
| acknowledge that, and therefore ignores potential
| customers. Or, perhaps it’s more than ignoring
| potential customers. For example, there is the
| publically demonstrated behavior of Microsoft.
| Microsoft is noted for its anti-competative
| contracts with companies, its “buying off”
| companies, organizations and even political
| entities, and its subversion of even standards
| organizations. (Oh, don’t believe me. Go see for
| yourself. Search for the lawsuit by the DOJ [such as
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft]
| and the record of what happened at ISO with their
| “Office Open XML”, or their behavior in third world
| countries with the advent of the XO computer.)
| Such behavior in an individual would be considered unethical at
| best and criminal at worst. But because Microsoft has money
| they manage to get away with it. If some
| combination of the above is the reason that
| TomTom has so ignored Linux as an operating
| system then their shame is complete, and they
| deserve to be known as “that navigation
| company that USED to be a contender in the market”.
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http://tycheent.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/linux-vs-windows-tomtom-gps/
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TomTom to buy map supplier Tele Atlas
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6198299.html
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