I never said any such thing, never that Gates bailed them out, that's your words. What I said is that Apple wasn't doing so good before Jobs came back to Apple. Jobs came back and restored them to profitability. I did say that Gates purchase of Apple stock had nothing to do with Apple's return to profitability. That was all Steve Jobs. Don't twist my words to aid your particular arguments (that are baseless).
Huh? roadcat? How did you get into this conversation? With reference to “Gates bailed out Apple”, my response was to something that Swordmaker said, unless you said it, too. Sorry for the confusion. ;-)