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Wired magazine ran a couple of articles recently where they painted Apple and its proprietary vendor lock-in business models not just in a positive light, but in a congratulatory tone so nauseatingly over-the-top that I can't just stand by and ignore it. The articles in question basically centered around how breaking all of "the silicon valley rules" of getting ahead in the tech sector made Apple succeed. The comparisons with other companies were just ridiculous as well. Let's see some examples.

Palm has finally admitted that they are working on a new version of the PalmOS based on linux. The revelation was made at today's Palm Investor Day event. This is not the Access Linux Platform (ALP) that is being worked on and is now giving out development kits to handset makers. Other announcements that fit with recent moves by the company were also made and are worth noting.

Palm OS 5 devices will still be released this year, but devices based on the Linux kernel should (my emphasis) be released by the end of 2007.