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BeOS is the reason I learned C++. I don't recall exactly, but either I didn't understand how or there was no other option but C++ if one wanted to hit the BeOS
by retro64 10y ago
BeOS is the reason I learned C++. I don't recall exactly, but either I didn't understand how or there was no other option but C++ if one wanted to hit the BeOS API. Pity Be Inc. got shafted so bad by MS monopoly abuse.
They had zero vendors willing to put their OS on a box and resell it because MS threatened the vendors with pulling their right to sell Windows if they did. This wasn't particular to Be, but to any other OS.
- pjmlp 10y agoYeah, still have my Be CDs stored somewhere. However regarding Microsoft, I actually think that vendors were as guilty as Microsoft. They could have chosen not to take Microsoft's discount and try to sell alternative OSes, even if it meant having to face a few challenges. The one that takes is as guilty as the one that gives.
- retro64 10y agoI would have to really dig for the emails the company sent out (I should have them archived someplace), but I thought the issue wasn't discounts, but a revoking of the license to sell Windows if the OEMs didn't comply. I did a quick search and came up with Quora answer given here: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-BeOS-dropped https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-BeOS-dropped but this doesn't jive with my memory. I will have to see if I can find an old email or maybe dig further on the net. I certainly don’t want to be rewriting history.
- pjmlp 10y agoEven if it was revoking the license, vendors had an option, and they have chosen the easy one out. I remember quite a few small shops trying to put a fight selling other kinds of computers, they might have lost in the end, but they tried to walk a different path.
- renox 10y agoI disagree: there is a lot of competition between PC builders so this ´discount' isn't really optional and Microsoft should have been heavily punished, for offering this discount.
- pjmlp 10y agoFunny this thing to blame just the side that gives but not the one that accepts.
- renox 10y agoI disagree: there is a lot of competition between PC builders so this ´discount' isn't really optional and Microsoft should have been heavily punished, for offering this discount.