From: "Geo" 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:44e391a6{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8030785497.html
>
> "Trolltech, best known for development tools and Linux application
> stacks for phones and other mobile devices, will ship an "open"
> Linux-based phone in September. The "Greenphone" features a
> user-modifiable Linux OS, and is meant to jumpstart a third-party native
> application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones."

Now that's something that sounds cool, a phone you can customize. The
mainframe computer was basically just like a non-modifiable consumer device
until the PC came along and then the world changed. Perhaps dedicated linux
based devices that can be modified will do for the rest of the software
based consumer products what the PC did to mainframes..

Geo.

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