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Re:Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: Wh... by dingaling on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:53PM (#17258349)
VirnetX is a listed company. Apple could simply buy them out from under the Board's feet and throw them in the dumpster and not even notice the cost.
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Re:Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: Wh... by raldi on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:41PM (#17258842)
Market cap: 202M
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Re:Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: Wh... by cpmouter on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:04PM (#17259703)
Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-)
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Re:Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: Wh... by glenra on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:32AM (#17263092)
> Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-)

About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income)

So Apple almost certainly could afford to buy the company, but they'd need a business case for doing so, weighing that option against all the OTHER nice things they might want to spend $200 million on.

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Re:Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: Wh... by code_duck on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:37AM (#17264343)
Apple also has something like 250 billion in liquid assets.
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