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Just as open-source software threatens the dominance of Microsoft on desktops, Linux is becoming a force in the market for mobile phone operating systems, which has traditionally been ruled by the phone maker’s own software.
“Linux is going to be a major operating system for mobile phones,” Haavard Nord, the CEO and chairman of open-source company Trolltech, told RedHerring.com in a recent interview. The privately held Norwegian software outfit has built an application platform for embedded Linux used in all of Motorola’s Linux-based smartphones as well as in smartphones and PDAs made by other companies.
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