Open-sourcing would have left massive holes in the OS. A lot of code under the hood was licensed. Remove all that and at best you'd probably have a kernel and n

Open-sourcing would have left massive holes in the OS. A lot of code under the hood was licensed. Remove all that and at best you'd probably have a kernel and not much of the UI, networking, graphics subsystem, media kit etc. The OS didn't have a full screen command line past the kernel debugger. So, yeah, not very useful. I'm going to be honest - it was probably not worth it to employ someone to trawl through the code to clean it up. Given the Be Inc business model failed and both PalmSource and ACCESS seems to have faded in to obscurity - I get the feeling no one was going to pay for that.