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To: KellyAdmirer
Then neither would saying the same thing about Microsoft vis a vis Apple.

Where is the payment?

Microsoft did "steal" the UI from Apple. In fact, Microsoft essentially lost a lawsuit, Apple Vs. Microsoft, over the matter in 1997 when they were required by the terms of the out-of-court settlement to purchase $150,000,000 of Apple Preferred Stock (No, it wasn't a bailout. Apple had $2 billion in cash in the bank at the time!), continue producing and developing MS Internet Explorer for Mac and MS Office for Mac for an additional five years, and pay Apple an undisclosed sum to license the patents and copyrights under dispute for a three year period. Apple's agreement in the same settlement was to license for one year some software patents from Microsoft and bundle Internet Explorer for Mac along with Netscape in future Macs for a five year period.

The settlement was widely reported in computer industry and Main Stream media at the time. It was only several years later that the spin was started that MS "bailed Apple out of near bankruptcy."

Incidentally, MS sold the Apple stock for a tidy profit a couple of years later.

68 posted on 02/03/2007 11:01:40 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
In fact, Microsoft essentially lost a lawsuit...

I was going to get to that next.

72 posted on 02/03/2007 11:10:51 PM PST by Petronski (Who am I and why am I here?)
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