Comment by ymz5

4 days ago

Thanks, chrsw! I encourage people to join the petition to re-license old QNX sources under Apache 2.0. If Blackberry does so, we'll have another good and free microkernel-based OS.

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jacquesm  11 hours ago

I spent a ton of time on trying to do just that years ago and it went nowhere, calibrate your hopes accordingly.

  • wslh  8 hours ago

    I checked out and BB revenue report [1] "driven by upbeat strength across its QNX division" (quote). I think this will make more difficult to obtain a QNX license if they don't see it strategic?

    [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-q3-earnings-revenu...

    • jacquesm  7 hours ago

      BB is a very traditional company, they're very much stuck in the 90's when it comes to software licensing. There is a BB QnX team member here on HN they can probably shine much more light on this than I can (but I realize they may not be free to talk about it).