if Google had bought BeOS

[dan]

google offers android based on linux.

but what if google bought BeOS, and also BeIA, instead of Palm, then open sourced it then offered it free to phone manufacturoers. remember BeIA?

could a BEOS/BEIA based android be a success? would beos work better than linux both as an open source desktop os and for smartphones?

[JohnGonz]

BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was built for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.