Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:31:34 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 15:29:48, Roy Eassa wrote: >On May 27, 2002 at 12:06:29, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>Microsoft had to invest nig money in Apple several years ago to help >>them. They did it because if Apple and its OS disappears Microsoft would be in a >>too obvious position of monopoly (well actually they have be found to be, so >>that did not save them). >> > > >That's inaccurate. Apple at the time had many billions of dollars in cash and >no debt. The amount Microsoft invested was trivial in comparison. It was a >gesture of goodwill. The motivation behind it was indeed as you say (to show >support for a company that can help "disprove" MS's monopoly), but the actual >money investment was a token gensture. That last word should be "gesture" of course. :-)
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