RIM Announces Workaround in NTP Case

Justin Michael writes "RIM announces they have a software solution in the event that the courts rules in favor of NTP. The fix is called their multi-mode edition. Customers are being told that they do not need to take action yet, but would need to install the multi-mode edition on both servers and handhelds." A Reuters article also covers the announcement. From that article: "The company said it will soon begin shipping handsets with the software update in a dormant mode. It will make the update available at www.blackberry.com/workaround at a later, but as yet unspecified, date. RIM said the changes would require software updates, but the new system will deliver the same functions and performance."

Comments

Too Late?

[u16084]

With all the "Media" spelling out the "Impending Doom" of RIM, I would assume every large client has already or is making plans to jump ship to another carrier/solution?

If someone told me that My car "MIGHT" stop working sometime in the future, BUT just in case heres CAB fare... I wouldnt wait that long.

I hope RIM gets what's coming to them.

[mumblestheclown]

I know many here are siding with RIM "by default" because of some philosophical kinship with those who are fighting against patents or whatever, but everything I have read about this case says that RIM have been complete asshats in all of this. On several occasions they had the opportunity to settle for far less money, and they kept escalating and escalating the situation. If you dislike patents, fine - argue agains the patent system in general. But given that it is the law /and that RIM had more than adequate opportunity to get out of it in some reasonable form/ i sure as hope they come crashing down hard. Maybe not hard enough that their subscribers feel it, but hard enough. Remember folks- be it based in some sleepy backwater or not, they are a megacorporation that have been acting like they are above the rules of the game.