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For the ones who remember BeOS and its history, from Wikipedia : In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loade
by Daril 3y ago
For the ones who remember BeOS and its history, from Wikipedia : In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be. Be also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc.'s initial public offering (IPO). The case was eventually settled out of court for $23.25 million with no admission of liability on Microsoft's part.
- sillywalk 3y agoApparently Hitachi did pre-install BeOS, but didn't include a bootloader option to boot it, you had to manually enable it... https://www.osnews.com/story/136392/the-only-pc-ever-shipped-with-beos-preinstalled/ https://www.osnews.com/story/136392/the-only-pc-ever-shipped...
- dredmorbius 3y agoWhich if true would emphasize again just how critically important defaults are. The overwhelming majority of the public won't change settings. Even those that are trivial, low- or no-risk, and readily reverted.
- Daril 3y agoAnd how can we forget the war that MS waged against Linux for many years, and the copyright lawsuits brought by SCO, partly financed by MS? So ... stop for a moment and think about where we could be in terms of software and operating systems if some actors (all from the same country) didn't keep trying to kill the competition with unfair tactics in order to continue selling one of the worst operating systems ever created and the main vehicle for all the viruses, malware and ransomware.