Earlier this month, much of the handheld world was stunned by the sudden announcement that PalmSource was being bought by Japan-based Access. It wasn’t surprising that this company was being acquired, but most people had been expecting the buyer to be Palm.
Does that make Access Co., Ltd. the new owner of BeOS as part of this aquisition?
Maybe they can sell it to the community like Blender 3D.
What is it with this beos junk? A major mobile os got bought by a third party and the only comment here is about beos? What is the relative importance of beos, anyway?
BeOS is a geek wet dream. A desktop OS to compete with Windows that was simple, easy, fast, light, multithreaded, and multimedia-centric.
For its time, it looked lightyears ahead of everyone else. MacOS had none of those things. And Windows 9x didn’t either. Truth be told, BeOS was certainly lacking in its own right (no real TCP/IP stack?!). But the little known OS got a name for itself, especially among impressionable Mac folk.
I still don’t like NeXT as MacOS X. Sure, they’ve got Jobs and it saved their asses. But something just didn’t come out right when they married NeXT to Mach and called it “Mac”
But something just didn’t come out
right when they married NeXT to Mach and called it “Mac”
uh, what?
NeXT was and IS based on mach with bsd userland which mac os x is as well.. your whole sentence makes no sense.
Yeah, but you left out the explanation why a BeOS Post is under a Palm story.
It’s because Palm bought Be’s IP a few years ago. Then the community got all pissed off because Palm refused to release or support any new versions of BeOS.
Personally, I just wish it was easier to find R5 for PPC (eBay or something) so I can run it on my old Mac Clone.
I can see how spinning off Palmsource would make sense because a company that makes PDAs might not want to buy the OS software from the same company that makes competing hardware. On the other hand, it’s not as if Palm (the hardware segment) is about to use anything other than Palm OS.