LG Prada 2006

Rectangle: check
Rectangle with rounded corners: check
rectangle with rounded corners and capacitative touchscreen: check

Who is copying whom, again?

So you saying thats company that can produce fucking cargo ships have to cave to a company that make toys?

Yes, but Linux is almost untouchable in the servers, nobody sane would deploy a big gig on Win Server without having too much money to waste, even PHBs know they can instead save that bucks, hire competent Linux admins and still pocket some for the trip to Aruba.

Open source just need to deliver a competitive Exchange (AD?) alternative and see the market share for Win Server start to crumble.

A $35 tablet that can replace $500 worth of textbooks educational material / year?? How do they dare!?

I think is not meant for your "quality real use" market.

Irony is that the device is created to extend the penetration of distance education in India, not for bloggin about your sandwich or twetting about your facebook update about your blog post.

Being a piece or Really Crappy hardware theres no doubt it will be more useful to more people than every single iPad Galaxy Tab And DerpBook created.

DethPad as in DethNote?

What could possibly go wrong?

*swipe over a name to kill him/her - pinch to specify details*

Some people is scared that developing nations are getting access to education tech while in some places (USA, France and others) government is about to pay students to go to school and make good grades.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1929454,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/nyregion/19schools.html

These are probably not "smartphones" but more like feature phones with linux and $intertubes and from that perspective and targeting them to the 90% [citation needed] of the market that don't care about "smarthphones" Nokia may be successful.

But yeah! as you put it and if I were a Nokia employee/stockholder/user, I'd be worried.

Just put EMACS and let the users sort the text editor in "the cloud"

USA is hardly the 8% of the total mobile phone market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use

And thats data from the CIA WFB 2007, guess numbers are even higher nowadays. My bet is that mobile manufacturers create products for the sane-mobile-rest-of-the-world-market first, and then they devote some time to pamper the American mobile industry.

Zen moment

So they can go from 90% to 91% of market share? As if killing Linux would benefit the pockets for someone on MS. Get real, tech4 is righ MS is mostly meh about open source. Linux it's so good that this kind of patent "low self esteem" from the users is unwarranted and, in fact, harming Linux.

Nobody want to befriend that lone nutjob on the corner shouting to "the man" while theres no one else in the street.

don't forget speed holes! a lighter and a clip is enough for a 10x advantage over plain old Cds

Space food stamps?

Yes, wake me up when Apple delivers something like the W700d a real machine for CAD and designers.