Basically, there are two major investors in open source: Sun who was beaten by Linux and decided to adopt an open source strategy as the most effective strategy to beat Microsoft. Actually, Sun was recently convincing Microsoft to slowly start supporting Linux as well as an OS for its Office applications. And the other company is - do no evil - Google that was first sponsoring Firefox (the revenge of Netscape's mozilla code) and now its own open source browser: Chrome. And funny enough, Chrome seems to have incorporated also some open source Microsoft code. If Microsoft can be slowly converted into an open source-loving company, the major "evil" force on the desktop has been churned into something great for human-kind.
Another major open source move of Google is Android for mobile devices. Linux is already after Symbian a majore mobile operating system. The Android move can bolster the position of OS on mobile devices.
Monday, February 2, 2009
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