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Old 12/07/2006, 12:21 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tastypeppers View Post
Yeah, it would be nice if they owned it outright, but why not rent it forever with the right to fix it up whenever you want? Way cheaper than buying it outright.

Plus the seller here probably had delusions of "someday I'll do something with this thing" (sounds like the stuff in my garage) so an outright sale would not be possible in any event.
That's an interesting perspective. But if Palm disassembles the Garnet source code, modifies it and develops something innovative, say Cobalt+, with long-term potential, will ACCESS need to license it?
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