QNX has announced that they are going to open up the source code to their QNX microkernel operating system. The press release reads:
"Effective immediately, QNX will make source code for its award-winning, microkernel-based OS available for free download. The first source release includes the code to the QNX Neutrino microkernel, the base C library, and a variety of board support packages for popular embedded and computing hardware." Read on for more information, as well as an interview with
Dan Dodge, CEO of QNX.
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2005-06-29
Umm... it's NOT free sofware. It's NOT open source.
If anything, it's a kind of "shared source".
Nonsense.
They allow everyone to look at the code, download it, compile it, change it, share it with their peers or keep it to themselves, heck, they can even make a distribution and put that online - they are just not allowed to sell it.