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. ;-)
Because in your reply #32 you responded to Swordmaker as if he said that, when it was my statement earlier to you in reply #18, that was taken out of context. I got nailed by both of you for my inelegant phrasing. What was true about my statement, is that Apple was in trouble before Steve Jobs returned; Steve Jobs returned Apple to profitability; the stock purchase helped Apple by having better cash flow to put into new products. The part that was false about my statement, is the wording “Gates invested millions in Apple stock that helped Apple get over a near bankruptcy”; the wording was inelegant as the “near bankruptcy” had come and passed long before the stock purchase so there was no helping them get over anything of the sort, that’s what Swordmaker corrected me on - incorrect verbiage.