I remember back in 95? when Be first went public with the new OS and the BeBox. I, as a former NeXT-er, was really excited about the prospect of someone else trying to build an integarted hw/sw platform from the ground up. I quickly submitted an application to be a registered developer (and part with a bunch of my hard-earned money to buy a BeBox), and was told (in a form email): "Thanks but no thanks. We don't know who you are, and we can't just let anybody have access to this technology."
What's even funnier is that two of my co-workers had the same exact response sent to them - all people who had either already created or went on to create successful commercial applications on leading-edge systems.
At that moment, I knew that this would never amount to anything. Even at NeXT, we were never stupid enough to turn away people willing to give us hard money (NSA, students, you name it).
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I remember back in 95? when Be first went public with the new OS and the BeBox. I, as a former NeXT-er, was really excited about the prospect of someone else trying to build an integarted hw/sw platform from the ground up. I quickly submitted an application to be a registered developer (and part with a bunch of my hard-earned money to buy a BeBox), and was told (in a form email): "Thanks but no thanks. We don't know who you are, and we can't just let anybody have access to this technology."
What's even funnier is that two of my co-workers had the same exact response sent to them - all people who had either already created or went on to create successful commercial applications on leading-edge systems.
At that moment, I knew that this would never amount to anything. Even at NeXT, we were never stupid enough to turn away people willing to give us hard money (NSA, students, you name it).