At a special meeting of stockholders, held on November 12, 2001, Be's stockholders approved the sale of substantially all of its intellectual property and other technology assets to Palm, Inc. and the dissolution of Be through the adoption of a plan of dissolution. Now Be has filed a law case against Microsoft Corp. In Be's opinion Microsoft destroyed its business through anti-competitive practices (sounds similar to the Lindows story, doesn't it?) Read more...
The filing with federal court in San Francisco says that Microsoft struck deals with PC makers barring them from installing more than one operating system on computers they sold. "Microsoft harmed Be through a series of illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly in the Intel-compatible PC operating system market," Be said in the statement. Source: Reuters
The filing with federal court in San Francisco says that Microsoft struck deals with PC makers barring them from installing more than one operating system on computers they sold. "Microsoft harmed Be through a series of illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly in the Intel-compatible PC operating system market," Be said in the statement. Source: Reuters
