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To add some details - the source code for QNX was available from 2007 until the takeover by RIM/Blackberry in 2010.

So do you plan to offer access to QNX source code again in the future?

https://www.qnx.com/news/pr_2471_1.html

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Don't hold me to timelines, but we're definitely headed in the direction of being more open and transparent. We're hearing that this is important to our customers and the community alike. Stay tuned!

But then it will be clear that almost nothing was done in that time…

The stock is almost dead. Please just opensource it instead of taking all that to the grave with you. Just do it.

I just looked. BB peaked around US$140 and is now around US$2. Financials are so bad it's amazing the doors are still open.[1]

QNX is a great technology, but nobody who acquired it knew what to do with it.

[1] https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=BB+stock&wt=FinanceGene...

Looking at those numbers, you have to be thinking about what happens to QNX if (when?) RIM/Blackberry goes bust. You need license terms that survive bankruptcy. "We can terminate at any time" does not work in this situation.

So from what I gather, this is the third time you want to be open and transparent with your sources?

You are not John "patent troll" Chen right? Your ceo suck

he retired last year, but it's amusing to think of some exec-level ceo going onto forums to peddle merch.

with BB's stock performance : maybe?

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