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The Inquirer: Linux Foundation suggests netbooks will be free

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Egan Orion writes: “THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, told an industry forum in Beijing on Monday that mobile telcos should give away netbooks running Linux in order to profit from multi-year subscriptions and application stores. Zemlin said Chinese companies can extend the strategy of heavily discounting cellphones to netbooks, which are often less expensive than some high-end smartphones and have been dropping in price ever since they were introduced.”

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