On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > You may want to read up on How Bill gates got his start.
Bill Gates got his start by dropping out of Harvard and with his Harvard room mate, selling a version of Basic for the Altair and other early computers. > And who gave Stave Jobs a huge "loan" when he came back to Apple Oh come ON! Stop with the imaginary history here. Microsoft paid $150 million for (non-voting) stock (with a "cannot sell prior to" date on the transaction) and guaranteed the continuation of MS Office for five years because they got caught stealing patented Quicktime code for WMP. That was a court settlement over patent infringement. That Apple structured the settlement as a public 'vote of confidence from MS' was part of the deal, but yeah, it was a deal like Don Corleone did for Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather". They had a legal gun to Bill's head. -- Bruce Johnson "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
