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Verizon Wireless has become the first US carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, making a stateside launch for Canonical's open source smartphone platform that much more likely. Canonical announced the Carrier Advisory Group in June as a forum in which mobile operators could discuss Ubuntu for phones and help to …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Let us slurp your data ...

    ... We've got good friends at the NSA and first class experience in helping them out. Please let us have a hook into your mobes too

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Could pave way for US launch of Linux-based mobes"

    Call me stupid but aren't android phones in fact 'Linux-based mobes'

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Call me stupid

      No, it's not you that's stoopid. Dominant O/S on mobes. Reg please try to keep up

  3. asdf

    can't help myself

    And Ubuntu continues down the rabbit hole of going from in many ways leading the LInux scene to another has-been money grubbing startup. Long live the fork (technically yes Unity is a fork as is my beloved Cinnamon but still) so Unity doesn't ever taint my desktop.

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