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"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[
by 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.