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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Meh, money talks and Linux is a niche. I'm in that niche, of course, so it pains me, but this isn't something new.

I've gotten used to vendors experimenting with Linux and/or open source and then abandoning the idea. Apple and Darwin come to mind, and "evil" Microsoft wasn't even involved in that one.

(Which makes Maemo all the more unprecedented, by the way)...
I'm also used to anticompetitive business decisions to mute Linux. Say, for instance, ACPI crippling aimed at Linux in particular (i.w. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249). Take from that what you will.