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Re: 'Be' is nice, end of story

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Post by macintux »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #10

> From there, things only got worse for Be. The company lingered around until 2001 when it sold its copyrights to Palm for $11 million USD. In 2002, Be brought litigation against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, but the suit was settled out of court for $23.25 million. After purchasing BeOS, Palm promptly discontinued the OS. Palm itself later had some problems, split, and sold. The rights to BeOS are now in…

Apple had a long history and corresponding fan base, which helped, and of course Steve Jobs.

Microsoft invested some money in Apple to help alleviate anti-trust issues, but from my reading the more substantive assistance was a commitment to ship Office for Mac.

https://medium.com/the-techlife/why-did-microsoft-invest-150...

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eduction wrote: post #5

>the next generation of Apple’s Macintosh operating system: Copeland. I’m sorry but it’s Copland, after the composer Aaron Copland. Having read altogether too many editions of Macworld in the post Steve, pre Steve era, that error (repeated later in the text) leapt off the page. (Admittedly, this would be kind of an hilarious name for a failed OS.)

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Post by kristopolous »

randall wrote: post #3

Beos had serato in 1999. http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/ab...

I remember being at the Hollywood Bowl in I believe 1998 and the consoles that are midway back with the audience in that little booth were all running BeOS.

They had their niche

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Post by tartoran »

Im itching for a simple OS that is user friendly and just simple, something that would instant boot and would be functional offline. Linux is great and all but sometimes it feels too bloated for a simple limited purpose machine..

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throw_m239339 wrote: post #10

> From there, things only got worse for Be. The company lingered around until 2001 when it sold its copyrights to Palm for $11 million USD. In 2002, Be brought litigation against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, but the suit was settled out of court for $23.25 million. After purchasing BeOS, Palm promptly discontinued the OS. Palm itself later had some problems, split, and sold. The rights to BeOS are now in…

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Post by yafbum »

tartoran wrote: post #15

Im itching for a simple OS that is user friendly and just simple, something that would instant boot and would be functional offline. Linux is great and all but sometimes it feels too bloated for a simple limited purpose machine..

Raspberry Pi distros are nice for this

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Post by clxxx »

Shared404 wrote: post #16

For those interested in a modern(ish) take on Be, Haiku may be interesting: https://www.haiku-os.org/ E: Posted this before having time to read the article, glad to see it was mentioned!

> With everything surrounding the demise of Be being highly litigious, it is no surprise that the project wished to avoid legal complications over their name. They chose Haiku.

> Why did they choose the name Haiku? Error messages from many applications in BeOS are written in haikus. Additionally, they felt that the art of haiku was representative of the elegance and simplicity of BeOS.

It seems Haiku is BeOS, just renamed.

Re: 'Be' is nice, end of story

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Post by pvg »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #10

> From there, things only got worse for Be. The company lingered around until 2001 when it sold its copyrights to Palm for $11 million USD. In 2002, Be brought litigation against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, but the suit was settled out of court for $23.25 million. After purchasing BeOS, Palm promptly discontinued the OS. Palm itself later had some problems, split, and sold. The rights to BeOS are now in…

Apple bought a real, mature OS with all the fixins was one thing. And while Apple was deeply troubled and nearly contrived to mismanage itself out of existence, it was still a much bigger company than Be, Inc - with products, customers, etc - something Be didn't really have.
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