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To: pageonetoo
He was sued successfully by Apple, for copyright infringement and subsequently bought 20% of Apple.

I have to disagree with your history report. Apple eventually lost that suit because of a technically ignorant judge. The Microsoft investment in Apple was at the time a little over 4% of the value of the outstanding Apple stock. The stock purchased was non-voting. At no time did Microsoft own "20%" of Apple.

Oh, Xerox licensed its GUI ideas to Apple. Some still think they were "stolen."

174 posted on 03/08/2005 10:11:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (Tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: Swordmaker
Oh, Xerox licensed its GUI ideas to Apple. Some still think they were "stolen."

More MacMythology. Apple DID NOT license the GUI - you could not more wrong. Xerox was an investor in Apple so they let them see what they were working on - Apple stole the ideas and latter tried to claim the GUI was their own copyrighted idea. Xerox sued Apple

213 posted on 03/09/2005 9:23:20 AM PST by Last Visible Dog
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