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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by bashinator on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:29AM (#25093281)
Didn’t Canonical try to do something like this?
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by nitrogen on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#25093553)
It sounds a lot like Nokia's Maemo, which was doomed by a lack of investment, subsequent renaming to ugly-sounding names, and bouncing back and forth between orgs after Microsoft's agent provocateur sabotaged Nokia's phone division.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by pjmlp on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:08PM (#25094171)
Correction, Nokia board did that to themselves after hiring Elop and having a contract that would give him a nice bonus if he managed to do what he naturally end up doing.

As much as FOSS crowd loves to hate Microsoft, better get the facts right.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stephen-elop-to-get-25-5m-f...

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