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Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the timing-timing dept.

Eugenia writes: "While Be, Inc had the information for over 3 years that Microsoft 'through a series of illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly in the Intel-compatible PC operating system market and created exclusive dealing arrangements with PC OEMs prohibiting the sale of PCs with multiple preinstalled operating systems' they filed a suit against Microsoft only today. Today Be employes a single person in a tiny office in Mountain View. Great ..."

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  1. One Employee? by daeley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should they change the name of the company to 'am' or 'is' since they only have one guy now? ;-)

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    1. Re:One Employee? by bryanbrunton · · Score: 5, Funny

      Considering the current state of the Be, they should probably change their name to Was.

    2. Re:One Employee? by susano_otter · · Score: 2, Funny
      Today Be employes a single person in a tiny office in Mountain View.

      Yeah, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

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    3. Re:One Employee? by jpm242 · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's because the word "assets" is not funny.

      J.

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    4. Re:One Employee? by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 3, Funny

      Depends. If you say something like "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these," you'll get smacked down. Nobody wants to imagine that.

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  2. There's this going for it... by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 5, Funny
    Today Be employes a single person in a tiny office in Mountain View. Great ..."

    At least they won't have any problem demonstrating irreparable harm.

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  3. Ode to my BeBox by slithytove · · Score: 5, Funny

    Elizabeth sits in a closet now
    and the blissful memories fade
    visions of objects and mime-types
    and the neat little scripts that i made

    Hope for the future has past
    from my elegant blue Beth
    to various *n*x machines
    what little hope I have left

    For as much as gnu's full of bounty
    and the empire looks to fall from it's hill
    I remember a time that was simpler
    only a BeBox my wish could fulfill

  4. Be vs. Me confusion by abe+ferlman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even worse, the beast may have infringed on Be's trademarks.

    According to legal opinion in Redmond, "Lindows" may confuse consumers into thinking they're getting "Windows". So switching the first letter of your product name with that of another player is bad, right?

    Well, "Be" only had two letters to begin with, and MS went and took one of them for their shiny new consumer OS! It's like the David and Bathsheba of the software world. Truly shocking.

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  5. Re:Not fashion. Justice. by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 3, Funny

    And, as we all know, Microsoft is expert in taking our back ends.

  6. What was that old thing about... by weird+mehgny · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...splitting Microsoft in two companies? Yeah, they could use a separate corporation of lawyers only!

  7. Re:Why now? by sean23007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They (or should I say he?) are the first to realize the next step in the dot-com/dot-bomb business strategy:

    Right before you go bankrupt, sue Microsoft! They are the specific reason you failed, and you have nothing left to lose, and just look at those vast spoils waiting to be won!

    That's it!!!

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  8. Re:Why now? by Ozx · · Score: 1, Funny

    We're a Mac operating system. We'll be a great replacement for classic MacOS...
    *Apple doesn't buy Be*
    Er, we can't make BeOS worked on PowerPCs, even though dozens of OSS OSes do...
    Now we're an Intel/Mac OS, but we're leaning toward Intel...
    Uhh, we're looking to sit beside Windows.
    We're a media creation OS.
    *No media creation apps*
    I mean we're an internet appliance OS...
    Ahh, fuck it. We're going to sell to Palm...
    We'll teach WinCE to be better than PalmOS...
    Microsoft illegally kept us from sitting alongside Windows...
    Because we know everyone would have spent $50 to buy a PC with both, so they could use our media apps...
    Everyone knows that Windows has no media apps, and Be had them all... But Microsoft kept us off of Intel!

  9. Re:a single employee? by testuser58 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Microsoft's legal strategy against Be:
    • Hire a full-time employee to stand with his naked butt pressed up against the Be employee's window all day long, every day, until Be drops the suit.
  10. Re:Today Be employes a single person... by cruelworld · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think your tin-foil hat is out of alignment there buddy...

  11. Hmmm... by wdr1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Today Be employes a single person in a tiny office in Mountain View.

    Hmmm... you'd think he would just telecommute, no?

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