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I 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

by retro64 10y ago

I 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 ago
Even 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.