[Am-info] Apple Rips Microsoft Settlement

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Paul Rickard on 11/28/01 12:54 PM ---

>========== On 2001.11.28 11:48 AM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>>Fortunately for Apple, at the moment Microsoft finds its Apple business 
>>to be profitable so sticking with Apple is simply good business. Still, 
>>Microsoft could rip the rug out from under Apple at any time, and the 
>>likelihood of this has only grown with this episode. The era of 
>>Apple-Microsoft detente may be over. Good relations between the company 
>>were never more than skin-deep anyway.
>
>    Apple still has several legal cases that it could file against Ms if 
>their relationship dissolves - cases that would be hard for Microsoft to 
>win. Ms knows that it can't push too far or Apple will bring those out.

Which do you mean? I was under the impression that most if not all of the 
outstanding legal issues between the companies were settled in 1997.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com