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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:53:36 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Interesting Comment about Mac OS X
Message-ID:  <20020219225335.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org>

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Interesting remark in the last sentence I quote. I'm sure there are
elements of NeXt in there, but I don't think that statement is
accurate. Last I knew, Mac OS X was primarily BSD-based, specifically,
FreeBSD.

  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020220/tc_nm/tech_be_microsoft_dc_5

Be Sues Microsoft for 'Destruction' of Business

Tue Feb 19, 8:11 PM ET
By Scott Hillis

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Be Inc. , the failed maker of a
computer operating system hailed by some as an elegant rival to
Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows platform, said on
Tuesday it is suing the software giant for allegedly destroying
its business through anti-competitive practices.

[snip]

Gassee, according to the book "Apple Confidential," wanted $200
million. Apple eventually bought Next, a company started by Steve Jobs
(news - web sites), Apple's co-founder and former chief executive, for
$400 million. The Next operating system now powers Apple's newest
computers in the form of Mac OS X (news - web sites).

[snip]

-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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