How Microsoft Missed The Next Big Thing
Linked by Howard Fosdick on Mon 13th Dec 2010 23:11 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless It's hard to predict the future because we humans prefer to think in terms of familiar paradigms. Even the most brilliant of our species are subject to this flaw. Now, Microsoft faces its turn. The owner of the operating system that likely runs your personal computer, the company that achieved monopoly with Windows and ducked the Department of Justice's scythe to keep it, faces a midlife crisis as the world goes gaga over portable consumer devices. This is the story of what's happening to Microsoft in the handheld operating system markets -- and how it parallels the earlier, similar journeys of IBM Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. Can Microsoft achieve dominance on mobile devices?
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SteveB
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2005-07-10

Did the Linux kernel developers allow Google's customizations into the kernel tree again?
This has nothing to do with allowing or not allowing. If Google follows the style, quality, etc that is imposed by the Linux kernel developers then their code will get into the kernel (if it is useful for others).

Last I heard they'd rejected Google's changes resulting in Google maintaining it's own fork of Linux (the kernel) though they do use much of the GNU userland wrapped around it.
You mix two things. GNU userland != kernel

Anyway... Google is trying to get their code into the Linux kernel ( http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/dibona-google-will-hire-two-a... ).

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