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To: discostu; antiRepublicrat
...forcing MS to buy dividend paying stock which they then sold at a profit, very Br’er Rabbit as punishments go...

You really haven't got a clue about it. Apple has not issued a dividend since December 1995.

MS was losing plenty of suits around that time, only tech watchers really seemed to care, even MS didn’t seem to care much. . . I think getting into the suit was the culmination of years of bad blood

Dancing, more dancing. More unsupported opinion from Discostu. Microsoft being sued was the direct result of their stealing code from Apple. . . a continuation of a practice that Microsoft was famous for. Usually MS just bought the suing company and absorbed them,

238 posted on 04/14/2008 11:55:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

They’ve been profitable and never paid dividends? What a lame company, remind never to invest in them.

There’s no dancing there, just you desperately needing MS to have lost. And no actually MS didn’t usually buy the company (the SEC wouldn’t really like that kind of behavior, buying companies that are suing you doesn’t really wash), usually they just lost paid up and outlasted the company. Like the Stacker suit. Stop spreading FUD.


242 posted on 04/15/2008 8:02:15 AM PDT by discostu (aliens ate my Buick)
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