LXer: Palm Pays $44M For Perpetual OS License

LXer · 12-08-2006, 09:54 AM

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Palm said today it will pay $44 million to Japan's Access Systems for a perpetual license of the operating system used by Treo smartphones and PDAs. The agreement ensures current and future Palm devices remain compatible with Palm's Garnet operating system. Palm, which also licenses Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition OS, said the one-time payment avoids yearly royalties to Access worth tens of millions of dollars.

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faheyd · 10-13-2007, 03:15 PM

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Palm said today it will pay $44 million to Japan's Access Systems for a perpetual license of the operating system used by Treo smartphones and PDAs. The agreement ensures current and future Palm devices remain compatible with Palm's Garnet operating system. Palm, which also licenses Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition OS, said the one-time payment avoids yearly royalties to Access worth tens of millions of dollars.

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And how many developers could they have paid to get http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/ and http://mytreo.net/archives/2007/08/l...lable-now.html OPIE/GPE up and running on the Palm phones. That 44 mil could have produce a huge step forward, now, it's wasted money, gone, lost, trashed.