Linux will be mobile OS of choice – Shuttleworth

Linux will become the mobile operating system of choice in time but it still needs to break the proprietary hold the major players have over the mobile sector, says Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.

Speaking in an interview with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Shuttleworth said: “If you look at the mobile telephone market, we have a couple of very, very powerful companies who control either big chunks of the handset manufacture or the billing and sort of customer management side of things and the operators, the networking side of things.

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