Linux in the news

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that a consortium of 23
companies and two Japanese universities aims to create a Linux-based
embedded operating system for use with the next generation of phones and
other gadgets.  Looks like somebody finally figured out that standards
create markets.

The firms include Toshiba, Sony, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric,
Canon, Elmic Systems, Lineo Japan, Red Hat, and Metrowerks.  The
universities are Waseda U and the Toyohashi Institute of Technology. 

The chairman of the consortium is to be Professor Tatsuo Nakajima of
Waseda.

The article (in the subscription-only area, I think) is at:

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