[OT] Be
PB
schizophonic@tiscali.it
Wed Jan 16 02:45:01 2002
For whom might care: Be Incorporated, the society
which produced the famous BeOS, has sold all its
assets and its intellectual property to Palm and is being
dissolved. Their site now reports only financial
information, with the operating system and all the
resources unavailable, and a indicative black ribbon
on the Be logo. Somehow paradigmatic of how a
good software project can be hindered by its
proprietary nature - think at all the people who wrote
software for that os, or that just used it.
Pietro
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Computer Science is not about computers,
any more than astronomy is about telescopes.
(Edsger Wybe Dijkstra)