Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> 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. >
I remember the 150mill amount. And Microsoft doing that as part of a settlement because of IP infringement just rings far too true. Most of the "work" M$ seems to have done in "product development" seems to involve stealing other peoples' code. This goes back well before Stacker but that seems to be the case which clued the press into the fact that M$ steals stuff from other people and calls it their own. Whatever the result in this case, two things will happen, and both are inevitable. Apple will keep trying to protect their IP and people will keep trying to port OS X to other hardware besides what Apple authorizes. OS X is what you get when you pay programmers and hold them to certain standards. Vista is what you get when you simply pay them and don't give a damn about it working. Peace, Dennis in Edna --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
