It’s against my nature but you blew this one at least as big as I blew the settlement. They did not buy Stac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac
Stac got killed by cheap drives, changed their focus and went out of business.
You are right.
I told you what one of the original seven founders of the company told me. I must have misunderstood. He told me they "bought Stacker" for quite a large sum of money. I assumed that Stacker and Stac were the same thing: the company. That resulted in me making an ass out of myself.
It may be that my acquaintance was practicing some "Spin" when he told me the story of what had happened to his company.
Thank you for showing me my error. I will not repeat it and when I see it published on the Net... as it has been... then I will correct that wrong information as well. I apologize for misleading you.
And thank you for admitting you "blew the [Apple] settlement" as I blew this one.
You did see that what MS did, in the aftermath of losing the Stac suit, was to buy an exclusive license from Stac for Stacker the disk compression application for a huge amount of money invested in Stac, and a large royalty. Note that MS, to settle the suit, engaged this time in a post trial and verdict settlement agreement to reduce the $109 million court order to save money... and also became an major stock owner of the Stac company, although not the sole owner.