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Motorola To Buy PDA-Inventor Psion For $200 Million

Posted by Unknown on from the end-of-an-epoc dept.

judgecorp writes "Psion, the company which made the first handheld computers in the 1980s, invented the PDA, and launched the once-unstoppable Symbian OS, is to be bought by Motorola Solutions for $200 million. Following a merger with Teklogix ten years ago, Psion has just been making ruggedised business devices, a business where Motorola Solutions also plays — note, this is Motorola Solutions, not the phones division Motorola Mobility, which Google recently bought."

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  1. Re:Psion didn't "invent" .... by cheekyjohnson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and someone else decides it's their right to TAKE it and GIVE it away

    Did they also RAPE your intellectual property!? Did they MURDER it, too!? The horror! They're RAPING and MURDERING everyone's intellectual property! No one will have it ever again!

    then I am directly harmed and losing something -- money in my pocket

    Yes! Copying data is the exact same thing as walking up to the author and stealing money that they never had to begin with!

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    Filthy, filthy copyrapists!