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Re:Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2023 by _glass on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:00AM (#38277285)
BeOS could have been OS X :)
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Re:Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2023 by sillywalk on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:06PM (#38282476)
Doubtful. I'm a BeOS fan, and used BeOS Pro v5 as a daily driver around 2000. Even Jean-Louis Gassée thinks (in hindsight) it would've been a bad idea [0].

If Apple had bought Be instead of NeXT, they would've have gotten Steve Jobs, who (arguably) saved Apple from bankrupcy, plus i{Mac,Pod,Phone}

At the time (1995-96?) BeOS was a (cool) tech demo, but wasn't a viable product. It had no developers and no apps. NeXT was mature. BeOS also didn't have critical things like - the ability to print, colour management, multi-user support, etc.. Apple could've added these to BeOS, but...

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-...

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Re:Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2023 by jonhohle on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:28PM (#38284374)
Final Scratch Pro was originally written for BeOS.
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Re:Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2023 by jjkaczor on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:09PM (#38369360)
As a BeOS user (and wannabe dev) in 1997/98, there were plenty of software developers and applictions available,
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