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1. Thom Holwerda (thomholwerda@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 08:09:06 JST Thom Holwerda

   Release QNX as open source, you Canadian cowards.

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 08:09:04 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • 'ol Mitch
     @olmitch @thomholwerda That OS9ish looking sidebar is amazing
   • 'ol Mitch (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 08:09:05 JST 'ol Mitch

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     @thomholwerda If they open sourced the old qnx momentics desktop os I would shit my pants. I ran this on bare metal for months
   • 'ol Mitch (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 08:10:30 JST 'ol Mitch

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew @thomholwerda it was so nice. No X11 this was its own thing. The Photon window environment http://toastytech.com/guis/qnx621.html
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   • 'ol Mitch (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 08:11:40 JST 'ol Mitch

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     • 'ol Mitch
     @coolboymew @thomholwerda this ran off a floppy disk on my Compaq grayscale 486 laptop http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
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   • Confused Web-Nomad (nsoddity@dancefight.club)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 09:31:33 JST Confused Web-Nomad

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • 'ol Mitch
     @olmitch @coolboymew @thomholwerda I remember that demo. Had a browser and dialer stack too. Was pretty nuts at the time.
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   • :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 23:41:35 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     • 'ol Mitch
     @olmitch @coolboymew @thomholwerda Unfortunately even if RIM divests and QNX decides to properly release source again, there's less than zero chance Photon will be included--- something about third party licensing entanglements that weren't carefully thought thru at the time. However, the core technology is described in documentation -and- a software patent (US6397262B1) so not all is lost.
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