Now that Apple holds all the cards close to their chest again, they have denied Be any developer specs to the G3 series - thus shutting them out of the game. Well screw those rules, Be has gone where every serious contender goes. Following the footsteps of Linux, X windows, and Windows 95, out comes BeOS for Intel. Of course even Be knows that they're not going to upsurp Microsoft. That's not the point.
Linuix fanatics know better.
They just want to hack around and have fun. Be isn't some bloated enterprise like Apple, they can bide their time and throw around OS partitions to people who like different flavors. Apple had one previous chance to go the BeOS route earlier, but even I admit, it would be a stretch to have expected an OS without print drivers to close the deal and compete with Steve's reality distortion field at the same time. I do think that Be could have had an interresting spin that would have given Apple users the same choice that Intel users enjoy. You don't have to get a box to run Windows in the Intel world.