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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 30 Sep 2011 11:16 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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>> The Kindle Fire and the Triumph of Open Source
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>>| One point I haven???t seen anyone make about this is the importance of open
>>| source software to the evolution of the tablet computing market. Google
>>| decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that
>>| third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell
>>| competing Android-based products. That???s what Barnes and Noble did last
>>| year with the Nook Color, and it???s what Amazon did to create the Kindle
>>| Fire.
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>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/28/the-kindle-fire-and-the-triumph-of-open-source/
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> In the PC operating system market, the 1980s were a period of intense
> competition and rapid innovation, followed by the 1990s when Windows
> became utterly dominant and the pace of innovation slowed. The same
> thing happened with browsers: intense competition in the late 1990s
> between Netscape and Microsoft, followed by a period in the early
> 2000s where Microsoft was utterly dominant and browser innovation
> slowed.
"The Internet? We are not interested in it."
--Bill Gates, 1993
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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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