Scorbing Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 Well seems Microsoft is gaining more terroitory with the release of Windows XP. They drove BeOS out of business, now I wonder, is Linux next on the list? What do you all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 probably not :] BeOS was never open source was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted January 9, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 9, 2002 no, and they were purchased, not bankrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted January 9, 2002 Author Share Posted January 9, 2002 Originally posted by Toxikk no, and they were purchased, not bankrupt. They were purchased yes, but they sold it because they had financial problems. Read it on their web site: www.be.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StimpyX Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 1. You can't drive out of business something that isn't in it to begin with. Some of the Linux companies may have to continually worry about the bottom line, but the OS will easily live on. 2. BeOS may become an open source OS (kind of...), depending on how Palm handles things. A part of the BeOS community is trying to license and continue development on it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 i still have a sample cd of BeOS before it was even released.....it looked like it would be ok to use just never really took off i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuyette Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 Originally posted by Scorbing ... is Linux next on the list? What do you all think? I hope so !!!!:devious: :evil: Coz when I hear here and there that Linux is free and bla bla this makes me sick : Have u tought about the migration cost and the poor fellow who was used to his Windows for years ? Do U honestly think that this fellow will move easily to Linux ? C'mon ! face it : Microsoft is here to stay ! btw I'll miss BeOS ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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