BlackBerry puts itself up for sale

Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by mncv89 on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:39AM (#6199429)

Canonical should buy them. It would give them a platform for their Ubuntu OS on phones, instead of trying to use crowd-funding.

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Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by s9ix on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:43AM (#6199459)

Introducing the Ubuntu Edge: The world's first triple booting phone, with Ubuntu OS, Android, and BlackBerry 10. That would be awesome.

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Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by Pxtl on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:43AM (#6199461)

Don't taunt me with such a wonderful fantasy. Blackberry/Ubuntu is just about the only thing that would make me drop Android.

Microsoft has always been a good fit for taking over Blackberry, but MS and BB have diverged too far.

Google might just pull another Motorola move and buy them up to add to their patent portfolio.

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Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by noct on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:25AM (#6199700)

Canonical has a revenue measured in millions, BlackBerry in billions.

Reality aside, it would also make them owners of QNX.

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Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by mtgx on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:02PM (#6200271)

Something really cool could come out of Ubuntu Touch and QNX if they could open source it.

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Re:BlackBerry puts itself up for sale by jpswade on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:56AM (#6199529)

This would probably be the worst of both worlds.

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