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If they are actively seeking a sale of the platform, any idea how much they'd want for it? They spent billions on the acquisition of Palm, and somehow I doubt
by wavephorm 15y ago
If they are actively seeking a sale of the platform, any idea how much they'd want for it? They spent billions on the acquisition of Palm, and somehow I doubt they'll even be able to sell a dying platform.
- mmahemoff 15y agoWhatever the patents are worth. Most journalists, forget webOS integrated Node before most people had even heard of it. The platform has so much potential. If they'd given away devices to developers instead of announcing the platform's demise and giving devices away anyway, it still stood some chance. But now it's been well and truly buried by HP.
- cpeterso 15y agoDoes HP actually own Palm's patents? Reading Wikipedia's description of Palm's IP changing hands feels like watching a game of Three-card Monte. After Palm split its hardware and software divisions into the palmOne and PalmSource companies, Japanese company ACCESS acquired PalmSource. Wikipedia says that palmOne later paid ACCESS $44M for the rights to the source code for Palm OS Garnet and that Palm could "modify the licensed software as needed and did not need to pay royalties to ACCESS." So who owns which Palm patents? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmOne#PalmOne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmOne#PalmOne This Engadget article from October 2010 (after HP acquired Palm in July 2010) says that ACCESS licensed some PalmSource patents to Microsoft. That suggests that ACCESS still has (some?) Palm patents. http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/08/microsoft-licenses-dozens-of-patents-from-access-and-acacia-in/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/08/microsoft-licenses-dozens...