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   Garnet is BeOS derivative

   

   alaric, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:37am

   
   

   Garnet was the internal code name for the beos derivative or perhaps it was the internal code for the non-beos former palm-os. I doubt it matters.

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   Misinformation

   

   David Beers, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:37am

   
   

   C'mon, Carlo... if you're going to report on Palm OS, please do your homework. The name change was not prompted by ACCESS, it was the result of an agreement between PalmSource and PalmOne back in May of '05 in which PalmSource sold the "Palm" brand back to PalmOne. ACCESS is just now coming (reluctantly, I'm sure) into compliance with the prior agreement they became party to when they acquired PalmSource. At best this is old news, at worst it's ascribes blame to the wrong people for the screwed up brand. Blame Palm for spinning off PalmSource back in 2003, which was what started the whole mess. And perhaps you could explain why the ACCESS Linux Platform is any more "giving up on Palm OS" than Palm OS Cobalt or PalmSource's previous efforts to port the Palm OS to a Linux kernel. In all three cases backward compatibility with the Garnet APIs was a high priority. ACCESS developed and demoed the Garnet Host layer in ALP before they even started on the native Linux interface. There's no "giving up" going on that I can see. Let's just hope ACCESS' better connections with ODMs and carriers will make ALP more of a success than Palm OS Cobalt was.

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