Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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If Microsoft really becomes the market leader in mobile phones, that's just another sign that someone finally has to stop them from using their desktop OS monopoly to create new ones. PalmOS and Symbian are no worse than WinCE (e.g., it's well known that Documents to Go can even read and write Microsoft Word documents better than PocketWord) and nevertheless Microsoft begins to overtake them (according to Eugenia).
Ok, maybe a phone-Linux would have had a chance if it had been as good as WinCE, but can it be true that you can only compete with Microsoft if you offer a better (or at least as good) application for FREE? If that's the case, something has to be done. Quickly.