Palm, the handheld operating system company that seems to not know where it is headed, has now paid Access Co. -- the Japanese outfit that bought the operating system from Palm -- to get access to the latest Palm operating system version, called Garnet.For a company that sold the operating system and now wants to "peer inside" it again, this is quite confusing. Palm's Garnet OS is five years old and by many measures, it is outdated as competitors like Windows Mobile and Symbian have won most of the mobile smartphone market. There are loyal fans of Palm, though, who love the OS and won't let it die.
Who knows, though, what Palm is doing with this odd request -- it wants to own the operating system one day, then doesn't the next day. Weird.
