On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Neil ''Fred'' Picciotto wrote:
> Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> > Actually, they paid Apple for source code and the right to create a
> > derivative work. In fact, Windows is a derivative work of the MacOS.
>
> hm... i'm not going to say that that's incorrect because i don't know for
> sure, but i've never heard this before... i suppose it's possible.
They did indeed license it.
> but i do know this: even if micros~1 paid for some of these things, they
> *did* also illegally copy some other things from apple.
This was almost a decade later.
> apple threatened
> to sue (i forget whether it was patent or copyright issues, or both), and
> micros~1 responded by threatening to stop developing applications for
> macintosh.
Actually, Apple did sue. MS had used QuickTime code wholesale in their
Media Player.
> the whole thing wasn't resolved until two years ago when micros~1 invested
> $150 million in apple
Actually, that was liquidated damages for the lawsuit positioned as an
"investment."
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