[openbeos] Re: Be domain price

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:12:30 -0400

>>
>>> Hopefully this will wake up those dreamers who keep
>>> hoping that somehow, miraculously, we will keep the
>>> "Be" thing alive. We will keep the OS alive, but you
>>> can forget about the name. Please move on. It's 
>>> why we're changing the name.
>>
>> I don't understand what the big deal about the Be name
>> is...
>
>I don't think Daniel could've made it any more clear. :)
>Really, it's already been laid to rest -- the voting for
>the new name will begin soon enough.

I think that the question was "What is the value of the Be name?".
To (briefly) answer that, I think that it was/is a mixed bag. 
Much like the Amiga name. Fondly remembered by some, not so fondly by others.
In any case, it isn't (reasonably) available to us, so we are moving on.


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