09-09-2005, 08:37 PM
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Re: PalmSource To Be Acquired By ACCESS
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Originally Posted by Felix Torres
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
Yet surprisingly, or maybe not so surprising, effective in some cases. *cough*OSX*cough* :wink:
Palm could pull an OS X out of their hat...time will tell.
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So you're saying OS/X was an uncompetitive before going to Open Source?
I'm not, btw.
(My understanding is that OSX/Darwin forked off the existing and once healthy Open BSD effort. Don't hear much about it these days, alas.)
I was referring to end-of-life-cycle products like Informix, Star Office, etc...
When you see a commercial product dumped into the Open Source arena, oftentimes its because the alternative was Chapter 7 or 13. Sometimes a miracle happens; more often it just continues the death-spiral into irrelevance... |
No I'm saying OS9 was uncompetitive before going to BSD in OS 10. Not 9x vs. OS 9 but NT vs OS 9. OS X, IMHO, was the reinvigoration
of the Mac OS. Without BSD and a number of opensource tech that Apple picked up I don't think Apple would be in nearly as good of a position as they are. Good being relative of course.
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