![]() I’m currently running a media PC I built on top of a Win XP foundation, and while it works great, when there is a problem, it’s often a Windows XP specific problem. All of their work will be released under the GPL. In keeping with this idea, during the joint announcement, Sony and Panasonic invited their competitors (Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Philips, Samsung and Sharp) to take part in the project. Sony and Panasonic have probably realized that it would be uneconomical for them to develop in-house and thus control their own OS to keep a competitive advantage, so the next best thing is to share the development and maintenance burden with their competitors, and commoditize the OS. Linux is an appealing choice because with the slim margins and stiff competition for electronics devices, a licensing fee to a company like Microsoft would drive up the price too much. ![]() Japanese consumer electronics giants Sony and Panasonic announced that they will be co-developing a Linux distribution for “digital home electronic devices.” As consumer electronics devices increasingly take on the capabilities of computers, makers need a sophisticated operating system to run them, and many have already turned to Linux.
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