Thing is, to those of us less plugged in or paying less attention, it's
like a fellow told a credit window associate at Sears a bunch of years back.
She said she was sorry for the inconvenience, but she was not
responsible for setting the policy, and he said,
Then please find me someone who is responsible because right now
you *are* Sears & Roebuck, and I'm an unhappy customer.
On 3/6/2010 8:21 PM, Craig Froehle wrote:
>
> Palm was VERY active in trying to replace Palm OS. But, senior
> management got in the way of the engineers through a series of
> corporate upheavals, including spinning off PalmSource, licensing Palm
> OS, and merging PalmSource with ACCESS (an Asian company). Through
> all that, the engineers at both Palm & PalmSource were quite busy
> trying to gin up a new OS based on Linux. However, the marketing and
> corporate elements of the companies were more focused on other things,
> so the constant undulation in the company frustrated the technical
> efforts.
>
> That's what I've gotten 2nd- and 3rd-hand, but if there are any former
> (or current) Palm employees on here who want to elaborate, please, be
> my guest.
