QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V

Re:QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V by ymz5 on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:51PM (#47492013)

Thanks, chrsw! I encourage people to join the petition to re-license old QNX sources under Apache 2.0. If Blackberry does so, we'll have another good and free microkernel-based OS.

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Re:QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V by jacquesm on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:47AM (#47541067)

I spent a ton of time on trying to do just that years ago and it went nowhere, calibrate your hopes accordingly.

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Re:QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V by wslh on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:00AM (#47542759)

I checked out and BB revenue report [1] "driven by upbeat strength across its QNX division" (quote). I think this will make more difficult to obtain a QNX license if they don't see it strategic?

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-q3-earnings-revenu...

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Re:QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V by jacquesm on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:13AM (#47542890)

BB is a very traditional company, they're very much stuck in the 90's when it comes to software licensing. There is a BB QnX team member here on HN they can probably shine much more light on this than I can (but I realize they may not be free to talk about it).

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