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Current Owner of BeOS Code Claims Zeta is Illegal

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-so-fast dept.

Hank Powers writes "The legal status of the Zeta operating system that was derived from the source code Be Inc. left shortly before going bankrupt has been unclear for several years. Now, the current owner of the source code, ACCESS, claims "if Herr Korz feels that he holds a legitimate license to the BeOS code he's been using, we're completely unaware of it, and I'd be fascinated to see him produce any substantiation for that claim". The sales of Zeta have been suspended and so has the development been halted as well. OSNews has an article about the recent developments."

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  1. I saw this happen once in my neighborhood by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, not exactly, it was actually two terriers fighting over a dry chicken bone.

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  2. Re:Nothing to see here, yadda yadda... by pla · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that's happened is that finally you've been chosen for shipment to Cuba

    Yeah, but that represents a real threat, since we have more people in Guantanimo than BeOS/Zeta has users. ;-)



    / joking, for the humor impaired.
    // I think...

  3. Doh! Someone feed the bloody cat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its like watching the rise of Atari & Commodore fight
    it out in a dirty mudwrestling contest on retro cable.

  4. Nostalgia by BillGatesLoveChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh for the days when Programmers didn't need to double major in Law.

  5. Re:Access Microsoft-It's conspiracy time. by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I live in the US. Where I was born, so I don't compromise on my freedom. Some other Americans have no excuse for such compromises.

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  6. You never heard of SCO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You must be new here.