[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Ubuntu phone

[Simon Greenwood]

On 2 June 2014 16:27, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

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> From: "Tony Pursell" <tony.pursell at gmail.com>
> Date: 2 Jun 2014 16:25
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone
> To: "Ubuntu UK" <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc:
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> On 2 Jun 2014 15:27, "Simon Greenwood" <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 2 June 2014 15:08, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
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> >> See
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> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366
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> >> It seems that the Ubuntu phone will be too late into the market if all
> the manufacturers start bring out their own OS.
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> > Few have the resources or will to create their own OS, or even bring an
> existing one to market as Samsung have done so Ubuntu's USP is still that
> it's 'free'.
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> It does say that Tizen is open source.
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Not quite - it's a Linux based OS but a lot of the native Samsung apps are
released under the Flora licence, which isn't compatible with the GPL,
among others, so as with Android there is an open source version but it's
not feature complete as on most phones, where in theory Ubuntu and Firefox
OS should be.

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