This guest column posits six causes for Linux's meteoric rise in popularity among handset manufacturers. Author Andreas Constantinou, founder of a market research firm, discounts widely accepted truisms like customizability and developer preference for source code access, instead fingering pragmatic factors he says are unrelated to Linux's “free” qualities.

Factors identified by Constantinou include:

• Reduced cost and time-to-market
• Wider choice
• Strategic control
• Scalability
• Quality
• Innovation

Find out how Constantinou backs up each point by reading his complete guest column, Mobile Linux is not about free software. here at LinuxDevices.com.

 
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