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Be Throws in the Towel
darrad writes: "ZDNet is reporting that 'Be, the failed maker of a computer operating system once considered a rival to Microsoft's Windows, said Monday it would dissolve itself on March 15 and delist from the Nasdaq stock market.'" The Be front page says the same, and explains that this is the natural conclusion of the company's sale of most of its property to Palm.
Here's a link for those who still want to try it ;)
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http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/system/other/beospe.ex
Life sucks.
From the latest press release:
... solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft)..."
"Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective
From the statement:
:) )
Pursuant to Delaware law, Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective or for such longer period as the Delaware Court of Chancery shall direct, solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft), settling and closing its business in an orderly manner, disposing of any remaining property, discharging its liabilities and distributing to its stockholders any remaining assets, but not for the purpose of continuing any business. In accordance with the plan of dissolution, after payment in full of all claims finally determined to be due, Be will make distributions of any remaining assets (including assets acquired after the record date), if any, only to stockholders of record as of the record date.
(Also, see my post above
My mother always used to tell me: If you can't find anything nice to say, say something bad about Windows.
The last I heard (and sorry for not having a URL) was that Palm catagorically said that they would not open source anything from BeOS or licence it to anyone else and basically asked that people please stop bugging them about it.