[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[John Bryan]

On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 03:36  PM, Mitch Stone wrote:

> --- From a message sent by Erick Andrews on 12/16/01 8:34 AM ---
>
>>> What, precisely, did they sell?
>>
>> Better I should have said "sold out".  What precisely do you think
>> Microsoft got for their $150M?
>
> 1/ Settlement of a copyright infringement suit.

This I think was what the 'undisclosed amount', that was later learned 
to be I think $200M, was for.  And covered a suit regarding QuickTime 
and some other things.  The $150 was I think the more publicly visible 
Jobs-requested-of-Gates public show of good faith and was the investment 
in non-voting Apple shares?

> 2/ Apple's agreement to distribute IE.

     Not only distrubute, but make the default.  Apple weren't even 
supposed to include Netscape in the install at all unless it was 
explicitly specified by the user. NS was on the CD, but would not be 
included automatically when the user installed the OS, or update.

> 3/ A technology-sharing agreement (which I suspect was necessary to
> settle the copyright issues).
>

Wasn't there also

   4/ Continue to provide Office apps for Mac for next 5 years (which is 
up next 8/02 BTW) ?