[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by madodel@ptdprolog.net on 12/14/01 3:03 PM ---

>And lets not forget that m$ pumped $500 million into Apple a few years
>back.  Amazing coincidence at the same time Apple dropped its port of
>QuickTime for OS/2 which was being paid for by IBM.  Claimed as a cost
>saving and resource conservation move, but seemed extremely stupid as IBM
>was paying them to write it.  gates always gets a big payoff for his
>little investments.

Wow, that's a lot of inflation in only three years. The actual sum was 
$150 million, and it was indeed a partial settlement for a copyright 
infringement suit.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com