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Palm recently licened Palm OS5 (Garnet) from the Japanese company ACCESS indefinitely.  While most of palms glaringly obvious buisness mistakes are hidden in carefully worded and shamefully upbeat news releases like this, I think this may be the first thing that Palm Inc has done in some years that has NOT lead to the ultimite demise of the Palm product.  A little reading between the lines leads me to believe that Palms stance is this: Keep with what has worked and dump off that which brings no profit (meaning development of a new OS).

What this means for the end user is that palm will be able to keep this promise to its users: All previous software will continue to run on its new devices… Something that ACCESS wasnt bound to do with Palm OS6 or palm-linux.  It does mean that we will probably still see no true multitasking from palm on the OS level, although advances in hardware may make it seem like it does.  Palm is allowed to develop Palm OS 5 to meet the requirements of new hardware, as they have done for many years now, and with this deal they can do it some more for the remainder of the foreseeable future.

http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9137/palm-signs-perpetual-license-for-palm-os-garnet/

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