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Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No

Subject: Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No
From: "Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>
Date: 2000/02/03
Distribution: world
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Byte Works, Inc.
References: <qOlk4.907$Mq4.8742@newsfeed.slurp.net> <20000128162424.23202.00000205@ng-ch1.aol.com>

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In article <20000128162424.23202.00000205@ng-ch1.aol.com>, cturley2@aol.com
(Cturley2) wrote:

> To which I reply:  Hey, folks...Apple dumped the Apple II long before
Microsoft
> threatened to not renew the licence for Applesoft.

At the time this happened, the Apple II was still a $1,000,000,000/year
product line. It was not the favored child, to be sure, but even Apple was
not going to loose that kind of money for a Mac BASIC.

Mike Westerfield

References:
- Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No
  - From: "Forrest" <bctimes@hotmail.com>
- Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No
  - From: cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)

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