Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Dec 2006 21:59 UTC
Palm has effectively committed itself to producing handheld devices based on the Palm OS - which it no longer owns - by agreeing to pay USD 44m for a perpetual licence for the source code underlying the Garnet incarnation of the operating system. The move is tantamount to Palm re-acquiring PalmSource.
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Member since:2005-07-06
>It's not really tantamount to Palm re-acquiring
>PalmSource since Palm is only getting IP, no physical
>property, no contract obligations, and no staff.
Also since they aren't getting the code for Cobalt. I really don't understand what was so wrong with Cobalt that even Palm themselves don't want to use it, but oh well...
Edited 2006-12-09 10:52
Member since:2006-02-15
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2006-02-15
It's not really tantamount to Palm re-acquiring PalmSource since Palm is only getting IP, no physical property, no contract obligations, and no staff.
Palm is doing software development again and has been hiring a lot of people lately, although mostly apps developers. Still, the rumor that they're working on their own Linux won't die, no matter how silly it is.
The PDA itself is a dying commodity stuck in a shrinking niche.
PalmOS was simple because it didn't do very much and it ran on very simple hardware. You'll never get that kind of simplicity on a telephony device because of the law of requisite complexity.