[Swordmaker]

I don't care if Apple got the better of a settlement that resulted in apple having 150 million worth of it's preferred stock purchased. It doesn't really change the point. Further I'm not sure how you could claim the newton was a success. It was soundly crushed in the market place by Palm.

By the way, it DOES change the point you were trying to make! The point I was making was to correct your claim that Bill Gates had loaned Apple money to keep the company out of bankruptcy. What you were repeating was not true. That was the spin MICROSOFT started to put on it over a year later in its FUD campaigns. I am merely posting the facts to correct the lie, the myth that keeps popping up like a hydra. This is probably the hundredth time I've had to post it on FreeRepublic. The facts are easy to find. The three interlocking contracts ending that lawsuit are available on the Internet, having been removed from judicial seal about five years ago.

[Durus]

No it doesn’t, the point was that Apple hasn’t always been at the top of the heap and they probably won’t always be there.