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		jonhohle on Feb 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sony’s 2001 offer from Steve Jobs to run Mac OS on... In 2002 there was still significant leverage being applied by MS to OEMs. There were a lot of interesting OSes at the time that were squashed because they couldn't get any installation footprint - http://slashdot.org/story/02/02/19/2226257/be-sues-microsoft...

fpgeek on Feb 6, 2014 [–]

Be sued in 2002, but by that point they were a shell of a company that wasn't working with OEMs. The conduct Be sued over goes back to 1998: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3073811

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