Unfortunately, I didn't do much to move BeOS further down the field. By the time I got there, the company had given up on BeOS as a standalone consumer product

Unfortunately, I didn't do much to move BeOS further down the field. By the time I got there, the company had given up on BeOS as a standalone consumer product and was squarely focused on BeIA, specifically the Sony eVilla. (you can google it for the whole sad, sordid tale, if you dare.) My contribution to the ecosystem, if in fact I ever made one, was to write what I thought of as the best USENET newsreader available on the platform. http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ I definitely would still be using BeOS today, as my day-to-day OS, if that were remotely possible, in this day and age.