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Ten Years of BeOS
Tracker writes "BeOS was released to developers officially for the first time ten years ago. OSNews has a charming write-up about the BeOS, some interesting historical events since 1994, and a few anecdotes as well. Today, BeOS still lives on with projects like the freeware BeOS Max (built upon BeOS 5 PE), the open source re-implementation from scratch OpenBeOS and YellowTAB's commercial Zeta OS (based on unreleased and updated code of what would have been 'BeOS 6' if Be wasn't purchased by Palm in 2001)."
Given a chance? I know I'm probably inviting disaster here, but is every stinkin' OS out there supposed to be forced down our throats so that, if and when it fails, we can say it was "given a chance"?
I wrote a book once that no one wanted to publish; fair enough. Was I not "given a chance" because so many people read John Grisham and Tom Clancy?
Don't be a looter...and yes, I know that it's spelled with an "A" instead of an "E".
Try to get some exotic hardware working on linux, and you better hope you know how to compile stuff, as you're going to need it.
Ooh help! I have to compile something! Can you do that on a computer now? Does it say you're supposed to do that? Will I get in trouble? Help help I'm so confused! I'm trying to use a piece of equipment that no one - out of millions of people - has ever used with this operating system but I don't know how to compile! Help! Help! If only I was using Windows everything would be perfect and life would be easy, oh, how I curse the day I got on the clue train.
Hmm, you still haven't proven anything. Did Microsoft state that they would disallow Hitachi from installing Windows on their PCs? No, they were just "unhappy" over the arrangement, and it was Hitachi who relented. Microsoft didn't actually do anything, except remind Hitachi that they won't get favorable license prices if they did what they were doing. Apparently Hitachi found favorable Windows prices more important than bundling BeOS.
You still haven't answered the bigger question as to WHY Microsoft would prevent OEMs from shipping Windows *AT ALL* if they sold PCs with BeOS, given that such a move would pretty much ensure that Windows doesn't get installed on a large number of new desktop PCs. Your conspiracy theory sounds a little stupid when you put it that way, huh?