Research In Motion to Acquire QNX Software Systems

[dammy]

This was announced on /. back on April 9th.  Fleecy accused Dan Dodge (think that was his name) of trying to back stabbed AI.  Fleecy, the highly professional CTO, did this on Team Amiga's mailing list.  It was the best thing that ever happen to QSSL to seperate from AI.  I'm glad to see the very impressive Neutrino (and I guess the GUI which is called what, Photon?) to see the light of day on retail hardware.  Oh, what could have been, what could have been...

[dammy]

I really tried hard to use neutrino as a main operating system for a year or so, but gave up as its development pace simply was waaaay to slow. Also they got stuck on porting gtk apps instead of developing apps for Photon. GTK apps could not utilize the cool features of Photon, and also did not work as well as on X11, so it all just sucked.

From watching various videos on youtube, not much seems to have changed the last 8-9 years :p

I don't think QSSL had any interest in desktop level after their dealings with AI.  Then they were bought out which probably ended any new photon development.  I think we may see new development on Photon if BlackPad proves to be a money maker.