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Well, except for the fact that government intervention forced Microsoft to keep Office for Mac viable, along with providing operation funds that kept Apple aliv
by sudont 16y ago
Well, except for the fact that government intervention forced Microsoft to keep Office for Mac viable, along with providing operation funds that kept Apple alive.
You're correct with OSS, that's succeeding despite how broken software patents are.
- randall 16y agoI don't remember the Government forcing Microsoft to keep Office for Mac viable... I think that was Jobs' doing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#The_Microsoft_deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#The_Micro... I read that Cult of the Mac book, and in it Leander seemed to indicate Jobs' intention was to make sure people believed that Office would still work for Mac, and that the cash investment was a way of doubling down on the notion that Macs weren't going anywhere. This is all based on my knowledge off hand / Wikipedia, so I definitely don't consider it bullet proof. If the government intervened, I'd definitely want to know.