[timc3]

So you are saying that they might as well give up?

they have to start somewhere, and choose a good base to start from, from now on its adding those more advanced features and the gravy that users expect.

Perhaps the linux guys should have given up around Slackware 1.0? I mean it wasn't exactly as good as the Sun and SGI boxes I was using back then.

[tomflack]

You missed his point. He was answering why they didn't try to buy the source from Palm and instead built from the ground up.