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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by macintux on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:30PM (#9932432)
The "bailout" was a payoff for IP infringement and was small potatoes, something like $150 million.
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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by rstupek on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:39PM (#9932492)
Assuming you mean the Mac IP and if so I believe Microsoft had a cross licensing deal in place which would cover it. It never got to litigation though.
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