On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > --
That is not the way it was reported at the time. And the figure reorted at the time was over $ 200 mill. We may be talking about two different events. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
