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So they (Be, inc) passed the buck onto the general public, and let them shoulder the immense financial burden of their failures? That's pretty evil, extremely d
by stryk 9y ago
So they (Be, inc) passed the buck onto the general public, and let them shoulder the immense financial burden of their failures? That's pretty evil, extremely devious, a whole lot cowardly, and an astonishingly good move business-wise.
- tlb 9y agoIt would be evil if they had intended to fail. I assume they intended to succeed. It turned out that Linux won the server market, but it was entirely plausible that BeOS could have won instead. At the time, lots of well-funded startups used Solaris/SPARC web servers, and many used NT, so it wasn't a foregone conclusion that open source would win. BeOS had a lot to recommend it over Solaris, not to mention NT.
- stryk 9y agoAh. You have a point. I guess it would depend on intent, and at what point they saw the writing on the wall.
- trhway 9y agothis day it is called pivot.
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- perl4ever 9y agoIf they "passed the buck onto the general public, and let them shoulder the immense financial burden of their failures" that seems to me like the definition of an IPO.