I was never too sure about the POSIX compatibility being a good thing. Sure, it meant that BeOS got more software more easily from other (Linux) sources. But it

I was never too sure about the POSIX compatibility being a good thing. Sure, it meant that BeOS got more software more easily from other (Linux) sources. But it meant that people didn't write for the OO API, POSIX threading was worse, as were a lot of other things. Since things were then just ported to Be rather than written directly for it, it kinda felt like POSIX compat was Be in its death-throes. I bought in at R3/3.1, and I regretted it since as it was just a sad slow slide after that :(