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[News] Linux Used to Make Wi-Fi, Microsoft Co-founder Wants to Battle Google Over Wi-Fi

  • Subject: [News] Linux Used to Make Wi-Fi, Microsoft Co-founder Wants to Battle Google Over Wi-Fi
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:05:02 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
linux.conf.au: Look Tux, no wires

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| Hence, it was not surprising that he opted to study computer science when he 
| made his way to university. Two years after the GNU/Linux operating system 
| was first released, Hawtin started messing around with it. He taught himself 
| the C programming language and started porting applications to this new toy.    
| 
| In 1994, at the age of 20, he founded the first of a couple of Linux user 
| groups - the University of Queensland Linux Users Group. Two years later, he 
| repeated the act in Toowomba and the Toowomba Home Unix Users Group was born. 
| In between he wrote his own interpreter and then a compiler and provided 
| support on IRC and newsgroups, also doing some work on the X Windows code.    
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16086/1090/

Mark Shuttleworth and Google's founder are other good examples.

Here is another bizarre attempt to enter a market.

Bidders Set for Airwaves Auction

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| Vulcan Spectrum LLC, a company owned by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. 
| Allen, also qualified. Among Allen's many investments is Charter 
| Communications Inc., a cable company with 5.7 million subscribers.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080115/spectrum_auction.html?.v=1

Allen's horrible tablet has vanished from the face of the Earth. Poor design,
high cost.


Related:

Patent troll? Say it ain't so, Paul Allen

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| Digeo is a company that's famous for two things, and neither of them is
| the product it makes. Thing One: it is funded by Vulcan, the venture
| company owned by one of the iconic figures of the computer business,
| Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Allen is also the chairman of
| Digeo's board. Thing Two: Digeo has done far better extracting licensing
| fees for its patent portfolio out of companies like Palmsource and,
| presumably, Yahoo, than it has selling its interactive-TV systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/3497


Microsoft co-founder looks to add to spectrum cache

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| Allen, through Vulcan Spectrum LLC, disclosed a commitment earlier this week 
| to bid at the Jan. 24 auction, alongside companies including Google Inc. and 
| AT&T Inc.  
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-co-founder-looks-add-spectrum/story.aspx?guid=%7B2FAAAA6F%2D797F%2D43DC%2DBE6A%2DB299BB7C58B7%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2743fu


CPE STB vendor goes retail with Linux-based DVRs

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| Paul Allen's Digeo venture is perhaps best-known in the Linux
| community as the employer of Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 maintainer
| and right-hand man to Linux creator Linus Torvalds. 
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8029845408.html

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