How? Wikipedia tells the story [0]. But here is my take. After Be Inc stopped making BeOS[1], some guy (no names, google yT, he was the CEO) tried to license th

How? Wikipedia tells the story [0]. But here is my take. After Be Inc stopped making BeOS[1], some guy (no names, google yT, he was the CEO) tried to license the Personal version of R5.03 to allow it to be repackaged. After Be Inc folded, this guy tried to get his "yellow Tab" company going for a while. It would stop and start. No one believed it would happen. Then they released a product based on the BETA R5.1 release. Everyone was a bit confused. Was it legal? This went on for some years. They made about 4 or 5 betas, then a 1.0 release, then a 1.1 and 1.2. There was a BETA for 1.5 too.All along, people were shouting "this is not legal." They made a load of changes that implied they had source code access. A few notable community developers were involved. At least one ex-Be employee was also involved. So, 2007, the proverbial brown stuff hit the fan. Firstly, ACCESS come out and say "we do not believe YellowTab has a legitimate license. Moreover, we have been trying to give them notice of this for many years"[2]. Then, JLG (former CEO of Be Inc) basically comes out in public saying "we never licensed anything to yellowtab". There was a complete breakdown of the timeline of events on OS News[4]. It was like getting a big box of popcorn and watching the biggest BeOS conspiracy theory since the Focus Shift unravel. It was compelling. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA [1] Focust shift. They stopped the desktop in favour of Internet Appliances. [2] http://www.osnews.com/story/17623/Access_Completely_Unaware_of_Legitimate_Zeta_License http://www.osnews.com/story/17623/Access_Completely_Unaware_... [3] http://www.osnews.com/story/17664/JLG_No_Agreement_Between_YellowTAB_Palmsource http://www.osnews.com/story/17664/JLG_No_Agreement_Between_Y... [4] http://www.osnews.com/story/17628/Timeline_of_Zeta_Developments http://www.osnews.com/story/17628/Timeline_of_Zeta_Developme...