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02/20/2002: "Be Inc. files suit against Microsoft"
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Be Incorporated, the company that fails with it's futuristic operating system BeOS, now claims that the Microsoft Corporation is responsible for the destruction of Be's business. Above all, Be has the opinion that Microsoft dealed with anticompetitive and illegal exclusionary acts to maintain it's monopoly on Intel compatible PCs. Be says that Microsoft did everything to make sure that Microsoft Windows is the only preinstalled operating system on PCs, so there wasn't any chance for BeOS to spread.
Read Be's press release about that and download the complaint here.
By now BeOS - the operating system made by Be Inc. - is sold to Palm, Inc. In late 1996, Jean-Louis Gassée (who formerly was "President of Apple Products"), CEO of Be, tried to sell BeOS to Apple in order to save the company he formerly worked for. Gil Amelio, Apple's CEO in 1996, thought the price for BeOS was much too high, so Apple bought NeXT's OPENSTEP, and rumours say Apple had to pay twice the price it would have paid for BeOS. Nice sideeffect: NeXT's CEO in 1996 was Steve Jobs - founder of Apple Computer and now Apple's CEO.
Now -that Be Inc. is sold- it can afford to sue Microsoft. There would be some more well known companies that would have some reasons to file suit against Microsoft, but they won't do it, because they need Microsoft as a software developer or rely in some way on this company.
Even if BeOS is no famous operating system, it is available for both Mac and PC, and some "evangelists" now try to improve it on their own. If Palm ever really integrates BeOS into its PDA's OS isn't sure at the moment.
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