| ▲ | rasz 6 days ago | |
Microsoft wasnt funding bankrupt Apple, Microsoft was settling lawsuit with Jobs just on the cusp of DOJ monopoly lwasuit. Microsoft was stealing and shipping Apple QuickTime sourcecode. https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_... > handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million | ||
| ▲ | humanfromearth9 6 days ago | parent [-] | |
Wow quicktime... That's a name I haven't heard for a long time. | ||