Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Howe Family <khowe@omninet.net.au>]

In article <quo47.14884$JN6.3151061@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>, "william 
strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:

> "Biggo" <biggo@blue-win.ch> wrote in message
> 3B4D5C03.602394BD@blue-win.ch">news:3B4D5C03.602394BD@blue-win.ch...
> > william strutts wrote:
> > >
> > > Wasn't that part of the deal Apple made with Microsoft
> > > when they bought 100 million dollars of Apple stock?  That
> > > they would include Internet Explorer with the OS instead of
> > > Netscape.
> >
> > "Together with" Netscape. Fortunately :-)
> > BTW, what's this "Apple stock" story? Weren't The $150M the
> > compensation for stealing (a poor attempt, though) the MacOS? :-)
> >
> >
> No. It was an attempt to keep Apple afloat so that Microsoft
> would have OS competition so that the DOJ couldn't say that
> they were a monopoly.
> 

It was part of a much larger undisclosed settlement of patent 
infringements. $150M is a very small amount to a company like Apple or 
M$. What M$ wanted out of the deal was for IE to become the default 
browser on Macs. In order to force Apple to capitulate M$ was prepared 
to trash the finished Office 98 for Mac. Jobs knew that would hurt Mac 
sales badly and negotiated the best deal he could. Did M$ bail out 
Apple? Nope. Did they pay somewhat for some of the stuff they stole? A 
little.

Kim Howe
khowe@omninet.net.au