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on Saturday December 13 2014, @05:14PM
from the BlackBerry-Inc-mops-its-brow dept.
from the BlackBerry-Inc-mops-its-brow dept.
El Reg reports
As foreshadowed in February, Ford has announced a new in-car entertainment and communications system that will run on BlackBerry's QNX real-time operating system, not Windows as is the case for the company's current efforts.
Ford Sync 3 will offer touch-screen and voice recognition controls. The latter will allow drivers to command both their vehicle and apps on their phone. Siri control is another feature.
The auto-maker's offered a touch-screen system for some time now, but it's widely regarded as one of its weak points. A complete refresh on a new operating system therefore looks like a good move.
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Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday December 14 2014, @06:46AM
No, he's not really this stupid. He just has a financial interest in Microsoft continuing to be the dominant OS on consumer devices. Makes it a bit difficult to think clearly, that does! But why the vitriol against Linus as opposed to Blackberry? Well, maybe you will be attacked by RMS if you abuse and violate the free software license (as well you should, being a lawbreaker and generally no good human being), but hairy forgot to mention what they were running away from: the Smaug in the room, so to speak.
Viral GPL has nothing on jackbooted BSA! Imagine you are pulled over by flashing lights, and it is the BSA!!! (Boy Scouts of America, wanting to help you across the street to earn a merit badge? NO!) Backed by ICE (Intelligence Control Entity) even though you are miles from a border, and DHS (Department of Homeland Shopping), they ask you: "Do you have a valid End User License Agreement for your in vehicle entertainment system, sir?" In such a situation, you should think very carefully about what you say next. If you bought your car "bare", without a pre-installed Windows operating system, it is quite obvious that you are an illegal. The Business Software Alliance will put up with none of your shenannigans, and if you attempt to resist or re-license, you will be shot. In any case, your vehicle will probably be seized and sold at auction to cover the cost of enforcing Microsoft's intellectual property. And so that when said vehicle is on the road again, the BSA, DHS, ICE, NSA, and WTF can make yet another _extortion_, I mean, bust.
Hairyfeet is on fire! Go, Bro!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 14 2014, @08:38PM
Microsoft continuing to be the dominant OS
It would be more profitable for Hairyfeet to sell rides in that time machine he seems to possess.
More of M$'s cheese-sculpture user base gets nibbled away by the multitude of persistent, nimble FOSS mice every time the aged Borg goes to the store for more cheese.
Only those receiving bribes from M$ will insist that Redmond's business model isn't obsolete; only they won't note that M$'s technology is inferior.
...and it's worth mentioning that the Linux kernel will be GPLv2 until the end of time.
For starters, tracking down EVERY contributor and getting every one of them to sign on to a license change would require an immense effort.
...or, alternately, identifying which code was scribbled by which person, removing that, and writing new code.
Either way, it ain't gonna happen.
-- gewg_