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Kind of like how Microsoft propped up Apple in the 90s. Gotta keep an illusion of competitiveness to avoid accumulating too many targets on your back.
by anonporridge 5y ago
Kind of like how Microsoft propped up Apple in the 90s.
Gotta keep an illusion of competitiveness to avoid accumulating too many targets on your back.
- rasz 5y agoThey didnt, but they sure build great PR story around it over the years. Microsoft was involved in a lawsuit after paying one of Apple contractors to steal QuickTime code. "investing" in Apple was part of the settlement. https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/ https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_... "David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million. " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5TdqfNE1QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5TdqfNE1QU