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QNX always sounded interesting, until one saw just how much effort the company was going to to prevent people from actually using it. Vaguely recall a story abo
by h2odragon 4y ago
QNX always sounded interesting, until one saw just how much effort the company was going to to prevent people from actually using it. Vaguely recall a story about someone trying to buy 50 licenses from them for a prototype kiosk thing but they wanted something like 1,000 minimum for a reseller account; and that killed the project.
- panick21_ 4y agoBeing proprietary killed such an huge large amount of great technology in the 90 and early 2000s.
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- danuker 4y agoIt also made a large amount of money for those who knew how to walk the fine line between profitability and adoption.
- bmacho 4y agoBrought them to life first.
- panick21_ 4y agoSure, but if times are changing you need to start thinking about how to change. Some managed that others didn't.
- gbin 4y agoNow it is basically a company just as predatory as Oracle. It is just sad.
- FpUser 4y agoI did some demo projects with QNX in the 90s and I thought it was the best OS ever. Unfortunately trying to license it for use with our company products was a nightmare and after a while I just said the fuck with it.