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As an aside, what's this about "Microsoft and Intel worked to steal Apple's code representing proprietary video acceleration techniques" back in the day? It's

As an aside, what's this about "Microsoft and Intel worked to steal Apple's code representing proprietary video acceleration techniques" back in the day? It's before my time, and the citation is a press release. Any one remember that?

macintux 7y ago
https://www.cultofmac.com/466987/today-in-apple-history-intel-and-microsoft-sued-for-stealing-apple-code/ https://www.cultofmac.com/466987/today-in-apple-history-inte...
webwielder2 7y ago
https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_appl...
galad87 7y ago
If I remember correctly a company working with Apple had access to QuickTime source code, and this company just reused QuickTime when Intel and Microsoft approached it to create a video player.
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GeekyBear 7y ago
Code written under contract for a port of QuickTime to Windows later showed up in Microsoft's Video for Windows product. >The lawsuit, filed on December 6, 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10, 1995, alleging that Microsoft and Intel knowingly used the software company to aid them in stealing several thousand lines of Apple's QuickTime code in their effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows. On March 3, 1995, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited Microsoft from distributing its current version of Video for Windows.[1] Microsoft subsequently released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by San Francisco Canyon, stating in the release notes "does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation." Later testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac.[2] https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon Microsoft and Apple eventually settled and cross licensed their patent portfolios.
- elipsey 7y ago
  Oops, I posted at the same time. Thanks for the summary.
elipsey 7y ago
"although Intel certainly knew that Canyon [Co.] had developed key parts of the code for Apple, it did not specify that this must be undertaken in a clean room[...]A month later, Canyon delivered the program to Intel containing code that was an exact copy of the code that it had previously delivered to Apple. Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface. Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d. Apple noticed a suspicious improvement in the performance of Microsoft's video driver" "Following a bizarre intervention that took the form of a late-night telephone call to Microsoft head-lawyer Bill Neukom by Ann Bingaman, the head of the DoJ's antitrust division, in response to a request from Edward Stead, then Apple's general counsel, this was at last supplied. The next day, Apple added Microsoft to the list of defendants in the San Jose court case. The sub-text of the dispute also began to emerge: 'Apple is also claiming that Microsoft has been using the code in question to mess up [Apple's] attempts to make QuickTime a standard.'" Ty folks.

macintux 7y ago

https://www.cultofmac.com/466987/today-in-apple-history-intel-and-microsoft-sued-for-stealing-apple-code/ https://www.cultofmac.com/466987/today-in-apple-history-inte...

webwielder2 7y ago

https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_appl...

galad87 7y ago

If I remember correctly a company working with Apple had access to QuickTime source code, and this company just reused QuickTime when Intel and Microsoft approached it to create a video player.

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GeekyBear 7y ago

Code written under contract for a port of QuickTime to Windows later showed up in Microsoft's Video for Windows product. >The lawsuit, filed on December 6, 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10, 1995, alleging that Microsoft and Intel knowingly used the software company to aid them in stealing several thousand lines of Apple's QuickTime code in their effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows. On March 3, 1995, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited Microsoft from distributing its current version of Video for Windows.[1] Microsoft subsequently released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by San Francisco Canyon, stating in the release notes "does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation." Later testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac.[2] https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon Microsoft and Apple eventually settled and cross licensed their patent portfolios.

elipsey 7y ago
Oops, I posted at the same time. Thanks for the summary.

elipsey 7y ago

"although Intel certainly knew that Canyon [Co.] had developed key parts of the code for Apple, it did not specify that this must be undertaken in a clean room[...]A month later, Canyon delivered the program to Intel containing code that was an exact copy of the code that it had previously delivered to Apple. Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface. Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d. Apple noticed a suspicious improvement in the performance of Microsoft's video driver" "Following a bizarre intervention that took the form of a late-night telephone call to Microsoft head-lawyer Bill Neukom by Ann Bingaman, the head of the DoJ's antitrust division, in response to a request from Edward Stead, then Apple's general counsel, this was at last supplied. The next day, Apple added Microsoft to the list of defendants in the San Jose court case. The sub-text of the dispute also began to emerge: 'Apple is also claiming that Microsoft has been using the code in question to mess up [Apple's] attempts to make QuickTime a standard.'" Ty folks.