Magnussoft has posted a news item to let customers know that the first games
have been ported for ZETA 1.21. These are pretty important releases for Zeta's software base.
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Member since:2005-07-01
"I mean, seriously, a company worth 90 million who wouldn't even say yay/nay if they had the source to BeOS? You've got to be kidding me."
YellowTab were NEVER worth 90 Million, if you'd bothered to read some of the above comments, you'd see why.. Zeta, after costs, licence fees etc barely delivered a cent.
Building and supplying operating systems is not a cheep thing to do.
Member since:2005-10-09
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Firstly, I quoted a poster above me..
Secondly, yT made very little money out of Zeta, if my sources are to be believed. The overhead of running the company and paying the royalties to Palmsource/Access KILLED all of the profit.
Yes they had the source. Having the source is what ultimately killed them. They ended up paying through the nose.
I think one can assume/speculate the following: (purely conjecture)
<speculation>
yT originally had access to source code from an illegal source. Fact. It is out there. The whole big wrangling and smoke and mirrors were originally to hide this fact. As some point they managed to license the code they had/more recent code from PalmSource. When they did this a whole heap of NDA's and confidentiallity agreements came in to force. They then couldn't tell anyone. I suspect PalmSource invested some money in yT (the mystery investor) but then demanded high royalties for licensing the code. ACCESS probably demanded for the agreement to be re-negotiated. This will be when yT went insolvent.
</speculation>
INAL. This is all speculation, but stranger things have happened ;-) Don't quote this as being factual.. I just "invented it". But I believe it isn't too far from the truth.
Member since:2006-04-27
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2005-10-09
#1 - Writing 1 million in exponential notation is retarded.
#2 - Assuming we believe their claims that they have sold over 1 million copies of Zeta and 90 euros a pop, I'm curious WTF is wrong with this company. If they *really* had 90 million euros (less expenses), they would be playing an entirely different ballgame. Right now they act like a company that might have a million in assets, not even cash. I've not been very impressed with the leadserhip behind this company either, so maybe that's where this mystical 90 million went. It sure as heck didn't find it's way into product design/development, and certainly not into some fancy marketing.
In summary, either the poster discussing the licensing costs is correct, or yT is full of crap. I suspect it's a combination of both.
I mean, seriously, a company worth 90 million who wouldn't even say yay/nay if they had the source to BeOS? You've got to be kidding me.