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Be Shareholders Approve Sale to Palm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-got-the-better-end-of-the-bargain dept.

moooooooo writes: "Well it's official. Be shareholders have approved the sale of Be Assets to Palm. Hopefully Palm will announce something about either a new BeOS version or licensing the source to the BeUnited crew."

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  1. time for palm to open a can of whoop-ass... by infinite+jester · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ... on microsoft

    in addition to the codebase, patents, etc., palm will be able to sue microsoft on beos' behalf, for the unlawful licensing tactics that kept beos off the desktop... microsoft's o.e.m. licenses prohibited dual-booting, which was definitely a contributing factor to beos' demise (one of the few concessions that the d.o.j. "won" in the recent settlement was a prohibition on those types of licensing agreements)

    given that microsoft is now a proven monopolist, and treble damages apply, palm stands to make considerably more money from microsoft than they spent for be

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  2. Re:not the way to go - Re:Be on Palm? by Troed · · Score: 4, Insightful
    There is no PDA-war. Do you really believe PDAs and cellulars will stay as separate devices? If so, you're probably american and don't know what's happening :) Say bye-bye to Microsoft, and Hello to Nokia, Ericsson, Panasonic etc.


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