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potatolicious on Sept 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive...

RIM is betting the farm on QNX, they have a death grip on it. If it goes anywhere it'll be down with the captain of the ship.

The only scenario in which QNX is likely to be sold, from what I can see, is when creditors are disassembling RIM piece by piece. At that point, is there enough of QNX left to save?

0x12 on Sept 22, 2011 [–]

QnX will survive in one form or another if only because so many defense contractors rely on it. (and RTOS of course).

One can only hope that it would be open sourced under a permissive license in such a situation but I highly doubt that will ever happen.

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