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RIM buys QNX (link to actual announcement, not what Techcruch made up)

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TechCrunch get it wrong again. After spectacularly misquoting Kevin Rose with 'one of us has to go' a week ago, can we please stop submitting whatever Arrington has made up today to HN?

Because Blackberry owning QNX for the sheer purposes or getting into automotive is insane.

The thing is, none of them at TechCrunch are even slightly technical themselves. They don't actually know what any of these companies do, names mean or products are. You could tell them RIM had bought Clarky Cat from the Boz-boz to compete with Apple's "Yellow Bentine" project and they'd print it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I have been saying this for a long time, a tech publisher that has very rudimentary understanding of technology is sad at best. But people who actually understands technology, going gaga over everything TC publishing is very troubling to me.

The only thing TC has going that has anything to do with technology is that they also invest on tech startups. As for actual publication, its tabloid material at best.

I remember running a QNX OS demo in the late 90's or early 00's that ran live off a floppy disk.. (with full GUI and everything) this was a big deal at the time. I was amazed.

I tried that, too - QNX RTOS 4 or something like that. As an OS with a shell and a full GUI, it was quite impressive for the tiny binary!

I used to run that, too! Not only with a GUI, it also had a web browser and could use many modems. I was also amazed.

They still teach realtime systems with this version of QNX at my old university (University of New Brunswick). We also use it to drive a National Instruments DAC/ADC board.

Funny I was just telling a friend about QNX today.

OSNews floated the idea based on

"adding valuable intellectual property to RIM's portfolio"

That this is also about arming themselves with some nice patents that the 30 year old QNX is sure to have now that Nokia and Apple are coming to blows.

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