Altro articolo su Sony e Matsushita che abbracciano Linux per il settore consumer electronics. Emanuele ----- Forwarded message from * ----- Riporto da eetimes.com: (http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030123S0034) "Japanese manufacturers back off proprietary OSes LAS VEGAS : Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers are backing away from efforts to push proprietary operating systems into wider use and are turning instead to open-source OSes, specifically Linux. The retreat underlines the failure of proprietary OS strategies for consumer electronics. Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. made it clear in separate interviews at the recent Consumer Electronics Show that they no longer plan to invest in maintaining their once-prized homegrown OSes: Aperious by Sony, and Pie by Matsushita. [...] Sony's and Matsushita's alliance to develop a consumer electronics version of Linux indicates their changed stance, and other CE manufacturers are expected to join their effort. "A number of major consumer electronics manufacturers such as Samsung, Philips and LG Electronics, except for Toshiba, are joining this open platform initiative," said Kunitake Ando, Sony's chief operating officer, at the Consumer Electronics Show here." Questo e` il link ad un articolo in cui parla della versione "elettronica di consumo" di Linux: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021218S0019 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Per iscriversi (o disiscriversi), basta spedire un messaggio con SOGGETTO "subscribe" (o "unsubscribe") a mailto:linuxtrent-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx