[rzeznikj at stout]

You obviously don't know much about handhelds, either.

I'll grant you that I'm no expert on handhelds. But I'm not a complete DUmmie about them either.

I have a simple palm pilot and a Nokia phone. Because I'm a college student, I can't afford a smartphone.

As for the Palm OS--Palm sold their OS to PalmSource for the future development of their OS. Even you have to admit it's a pretty stupid idea to sell the company's OS off for development and never use it. Especially if they plan to continue making products capable of using (what was) its own OS.

[Golden Eagle]

Every indication is Palm deeply regrets selling the Palm O/S now, since it is basically being sent to the graveyard by this foreign company more interested in developing a version of Linux. But instead of making the transition to Linux themselves, Palm has chosen to sell itself to the proverbial devil, Microsoft, instead. Just as Apple did with Intel, just as Sun did with SCO, maybe one day you'll realize many great American companies are doing most everything they can to thwart Linux without completely alienating these freakish Linux supporters permanently.