Linux Tycoon 
Ubuntu Touch smartphone one step closer to shipping
by Bryan Lunduke
Having a great, Linux-based, mobile platform is one thing. Bringing it to the masses, in the form of actual smartphones (and tablets, phablets and whatever other words we're using to describe "devices we can hold in our hand" nowadays), is quite another.Recent history is littered with the remains of Open Source (or, at least, predominantly Open Source) platforms that just never quite made it big. WebOS, Maemo, OpenZaurus and Openmoko are all sitting in a dingy pub somewhere, drowning their...



