If you see BE's demo at a trade show, they will give you a $25 discount on the os. Now $45(price with disount) is a lot lower than most unix flavors when you order them with tech support and manuals. If you don't want those things than it doesn't really matter if the OS is free or not, you call intall a pirated copy if you don't need those services. I think that Becorp is trying to get people use their product, the are not trying to slay microsoft, just supplement them. I think that this attitude is reflected in the partitioning and multi boot software it comes with the OS. But one more thing. BEOS runs on off the shelf PC hardware (mac to, but that looks like that is ending. QNX isn't likely to be able to combine an obscure os with un-mainstream hardware. They are going to need one hell of a killer app for that to happen.
--- In the land of the blind the one eyed man is burnt at the stake.
Then let the 5 companies all split the cost of laying the line and let then their customers can choose. I don't presume to know the economics of the situation, but let's let the companies and their stockholders decide what is a waste of money. After all it is their money. Letting them decide seems a far better route than acting like we have a moral right to make them share a line that the other companies didn't take the risk of paying for.
As anyone been able to find this survey he quotes? I looked and I couldn't. There are at least 2 online documents with this name, one is a Priceton U publication and the other is a liberal publication(acording to their homepage, and I didn't see it on either.
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I'm not sure what are you talking about. I thought that line item veto was found unconstitutional by the supreme court.
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In the land of the blind the one eyed man is burnt at the stake.
If you see BE's demo at a trade show, they will give you a $25 discount on the os. Now $45(price with disount) is a lot lower than most unix flavors when you order them with tech support and manuals. If you don't want those things than it doesn't really matter if the OS is free or not, you call intall a pirated copy if you don't need those services. I think that Becorp is trying to get people use their product, the are not trying to slay microsoft, just supplement them. I think that this attitude is reflected in the partitioning and multi boot software it comes with the OS.
But one more thing. BEOS runs on off the shelf PC hardware (mac to, but that looks like that is ending. QNX isn't likely to be able to combine an obscure os with un-mainstream hardware. They are going to need one hell of a killer app for that to happen.
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In the land of the blind the one eyed man is burnt at the stake.
Then let the 5 companies all split the cost of laying the line and let then their customers can choose. I don't presume to know the economics of the situation, but let's let the companies and their stockholders decide what is a waste of money. After all it is their money. Letting them decide seems a far better route than acting like we have a moral right to make them share a line that the other companies didn't take the risk of paying for.
As anyone been able to find this survey he quotes?
I looked and I couldn't. There are at least 2 online documents with this name, one is a Priceton U publication and the other is a liberal publication(acording to their homepage, and I didn't see it on either.
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