We kind of live in an alternate to that alternative reality. A lot (most?) of Be engineers ended up at a company called Danger, which was bought by Google a fe

We kind of live in an alternate to that alternative reality. A lot (most?) of Be engineers ended up at a company called Danger, which was bought by Google a few years later, and they all went on to be the original core team of Android. Some BeOS technologies even ended up in Android such as its Binder, which from memory the Be engineer working on it open sourced it just before Palm bought Be, and then he used the same code in Android.