Microsoft forks out to Be Inc, but sad news for Be fans

Microsoft and Be Inc. settled their law suit with Microsoft paying Be $US23 million plus costs. Again, Microsoft avoids having to admit that they illegally squashed a competitor operating system, but they achieved their aim of protecting their turf for a relatively small sum. Be will apparently now fold, using the monies to repy creditors and shareholders.

It's so sad because BeOS was such a sweet OS. I really think it had a chance to carve out a niche in video and animation, kinda like a new age Amiga (not to be confused with the new Amiga OS).

Oh well, I still have my BeOS Book (with R1 PPC cd sealed in the back - filed along with my mint condition eWorld book + cd!) when I want to reminisce. Of course there are still people keeping R5 alive: BeOS 5 Personal Edition ; and an open source clean room implementation of BeOS: Open BeOS