If I am not mistaken, Woo Lee is referring to a second time when Apple
turned down the chance to buy Be, after Jobs was in control. Before Palm
decided that they would be the ones to buy the company, IIRC.
sj
On Sunday, February 10, 2002, at 01:51 AM, Benjamin wrote:
>
> Why would Steve Jobs be in power at apple when they were having
> negotiation with BeOS? As far as i know when Steve jobs came back to
> apple, they pretty much know that they'll be using OpenStep as the
> foundation of the next generation Mac OS, so why would there be any hand
> picked board by Steve ?? Unless Steve's hand picked board managed to
> stay on board ever since Steve got kicked out by Sculley.
>
> 2 10, 2002, at 01:33 , Woo Lee wrote:
>
>>
>> Mainly because the previous CEO of BEOS demanded a seat on the Apple =
>> executive board. $J and his hand-picked board said 'No'. Macworld
>> had =
>> posted reports of Mac OS 8.x running with BEOS on the same =
>> partition(merged like some freak of computer nature).
>> ------------------
>>> Apple didn't want BEOS
>>> when it was offered to them, think they'll take it in
>>> a Palm OS design?
>>> Ed
>>> web/gadget guru
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