Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Dec 2002 16:33 UTC, submitted by George N
BeOS & Derivatives Nowadays, all you hear about is Windows, MacOS X, or GNU/Linux. However, what ever happened to the good old BeOS?
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Unix was also capitalistic...
by Gabou on Sat 28th Dec 2002 11:01 UTC

Someone said :

"Give me one good reason to support BeOS or any of its clones. Its just an unfortunate example at how capitalism hurts us all. Technology gone to waste because someone doesn't feel like they made enough money. Too bad. At least I got Linux/BSD.
"

When Unix appears in the beginning of the 70ies, it wasn't open source at all. in fact, what OpenBeOS does today seems to me like NetBSD, FreeBSD and other *nix clones did with HP, Sun and other proprietary unix OS.