If you like Linux and conspiracies you’ll love Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage, by John H. Terpstra.
It’s a fine three part exposé of IT interests in the West and how the East may win over them.
I once tried to find a Linux driver for an HP printer… only to discover that although the Windows one was well placed on the vendor’s site, there was only a poorly placed reference to an open sourced contribution, by HP itself, with a link to an outside site (!) that specialized on Linux configuration assistance and drivers. It seemed that HP didn’t want to be seen to support Linux on an equal footing with Windows.
Cheers,
-pmh
LG.Philips LCD and E Ink Build 10.1″ Flex Display with Production Equipment
This is a very important advance.
During one of his 2005 BBC Reith Lectures Lord Broers was asked what he thought the most important development would be during the first half of the 21st. century. He replied that electronic displays that have the characteristics of a sheet of paper would have a huge impact. Here’s the clip from the lecture’s question period [streamed mp3].
The spin offs from this will extend far beyond wrapping a display around a cell phone. The decendents of the iPod may well have large displays that unfold, but the implications for the electronic display of digital information go beyond that.
Watch this space.
-pmh
ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.
