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A brief history of computers and free software: where is the money?

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| So, between 1996 and 2006 software (and data) moved away from people’s 
| computers, and ended up in the “cloud” — that is, online. Software running 
| locally on a computer became more and more a commodity, and less and less 
| like something that was worth paying for. The Internet changed everything. A 
| computer without an Internet connection was already considered mostly 
| useless.     
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/brief_history_computers_and_free_software_where_is_the_money

How to Run Web Apps from Your Desktop

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| Don't get the impression that flavor of the month Chrome created the 
| app-in-a-window paradigm. Mozilla Labs's Prism project is almost a year old—
| older actually, since it was known as WebRunner before that.  
| 
| Prism's SSB ability is much the same as that of Chrome's application windows. 
| Its current form is a simple Firefox 3.0 extension and runs on Windows, Mac  
| OS, and Linux. (If you haven't upgraded Firefox to 3.0—and you should—you can 
| still download Prism from Mozilla Labs as a standalone app for all three 
| operating systems.)    
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331072,00.asp

Google and HTC spent 3 years on Android, handsets

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| Executives from both companies started talking about a collaboration as long 
| as five years ago, but those discussions didn't turn into anything 
| substantial until later, said John Wang, chief marketing officer of HTC, in 
| an interview early Wednesday in Taipei.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=992510882&rid=-50


Recent:

Is Google Android the Next Windows?

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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.    
|
| [...]
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| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.    
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/


GACL

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| Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now
| it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new
| mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on
| Linux. Gears is a way to run Web apps on desktops and store data locally as
| well as in the cloud. Android is a development framework for Linux-based
| mobile devices. Chrome is a browser, but not just for pages. Chrome also runs
| apps. In that respect, it's more than the UI-inside-a-window that all
| browsers have become. It's essentially an operating system.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl


Is Android Google's Ticket into the Enterprise?

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| Google Inc.'s Android project could be the start of a much larger enterprise
| strategy, according to one industry analyst. But before the search engine
| giant can threaten Microsoft's enterprise supremacy, most observers of
| wireless industry efforts agree that the company's open source OS platform
| will need to regain support from its development community.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/151306/is_android_googles_ticket_into_the_enterprise.html


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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