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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. i fail to see the point by kraada · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    even if they get some sort of settlement what do they plan on doing with it? Be's good and everything, but charging for an OS is never going to work again for anybody other than microsoft . . . it's not like this is going to make people start developing for Be . . . maybe it's going to give them a little money so they can bail themselves a little out of debt and close up shop? I'm confused . . . does anybody know what they really stand to gain? I'm at a loss . . .

  2. Be?? by Hooya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to Be, or not to Be? that was never even the question. it was Me (as in the ME of the windows CE-ME-NT). who woulda thunk?