[KLUG Members] NY Times on Linux, again...

[Peter Buxton]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux-consumerelectronics.html

Low cost and the freedom to tweak the software are reasons why eight of
the world's largest consumer electronics makers, including the numbers
one and two Sony Corp and Matsushita of Japan, have set up an alliance
to develop and promote Linux for consumer electronics products, last
month.

"The consumer electronics makers sell millions of devices while their
profit margins are extremely slim. If they have don't have to pay
royalties it works directly through to their bottom line," Martin Fink,
head of Linux activities at Hewlett-Packard, told Reuters in an
interview.

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