Be is almost gone as Gassée resigns
by Volker Weber
And now is the time to read Scott Hacker's BYTE article "He Who Controls the Bootloader" again.
"What we know for sure is that Microsoft treated the PC hardware platform as if it owned it, and thus hurt consumers, software developers, PC OEMs, OS competitors, and the industry in general. That's a layman's definition of abusing a monopoly.
-- Jean Louis Gassée, July 2000