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Originally Posted by cervezas
The only thing about those two postings, Surer, is that embedded Linux skills would be good experience to have for those jobs even if they were for 68k Palm OS application development. In this day of object-oriented programming, Java, and .NET, I expect it's harder to find talented C language developers than it used to be, especially ones with specific Palm OS experience. But any good Linux C developer can learn Palm OS pretty easily. They also might be a little more likely to have experience working on teams in a corporate setting than, say, you're average Palm OS shareware developer.
I still think Palm is doing some kind of platform development using Linux because of that one very specific job posting and the fact that they were hiring lots of Linux engineers in the Fall, but these two positions just sound like Palm OS engineering jobs to me.
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The point is that they are hardly going to write an e-mail client and web browser for POS Garnet. We all know Garnet is not the future. If they are writing for the future, its either going to be WM or their own Linux. If they are going ALP, it will come with an e-mail and very good web browser. So will WM (and they dont mention WM experience at all). The obvious inference is that they are ignoring ALP and going their own way.
Surur