Discussion

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ymz5: Thanks, chrsw! I encourage people to join the petition to re-license old QNX sources under Apache 2.0. If Blackberry does so, we'll have another good and free microkernel-based OS.

jacquesm: I spent a ton of time on trying to do just that years ago and it went nowhere, calibrate your hopes accordingly.

ymz5: Well, there's a plan in case BB doesn't re-license.We will rewrite the proprietary parts of the kernel from scratch. It's not trivial, but possible.We could use seL4 as a basis for the "core" message-passing primitives. Channels and connections will go next.

wslh: I checked out and BB revenue report [1] "driven by upbeat strength across its QNX division" (quote). I think this will make more difficult to obtain a QNX license if they don't see it strategic?[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-q3-earnings-revenu...