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Re:Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 ... by YooLi on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:13PM (#3657893)
"It is interesting to ponder, in that context, that Apple likely owes its existence to that act."

Except it doesn't.

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Re:Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 ... by jgw on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:54PM (#3658074)
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

"The unexpected revelation by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a keynote speech at MacWorld prompted gasps of disbelief and loud boos from the audience of thousands of Mac users and software developers."

Sounds like they still haven't subsided.

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Re:Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 ... by recoiledsnake on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:31PM (#3657971)
We have a direct quote from Steve Jobs' official biographer from Jobs' himself, unless you mean that the Office/IE development was more important than the money.

The money seems to be so that MS felt that Apple's success was tied in to it's own, and thus won't skimp on the IE and Office development make them to par with their Windows versions.

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