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| From | Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | talk.politics.guns, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.os.linux.advocacy, sac.politics, alt.politics.nationalism.white |
| Subject | Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. |
| Date | 2025-01-06 09:42 -0800 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vlh4mr$1nndq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2025-01-06 03:31, Joel wrote: > Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote: > >>>>>>>> Obviously, DEC weren't happy with the apparent similarity of >>>>>>>> Windows NT >>>>>>>> and their product, VMS. In fact, when DEC's engineers noticed the >>>>>>>> problem, and brought their concern to the senior management, suing >>>>>>>> Microsoft for intellectual property violation was a possibility. >>>>>>>> Instead, there was an out of court settlement with Microsoft. >>>>>>>> As a result, `Affinity for OpenVMS', a scheme to train DEC's >>>>>>>> technicians >>>>>>>> and promote NT and OpenVMS as complimentary pieces of a networking >>>>>>>> solution was announced in summer of 1995. Plus, Microsoft promised to >>>>>>>> maintain NT support for the DEC Alpha processor and paid DEC up to >>>>>>>> $100 >>>>>>>> million. I'd say Bill Gates got off quite lightly.' >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Getting off lightly" in a settlement means plaintiffs gave up their >>>>>>> butthurt suit, for a small token settlement - M$ had little to lose, >>>>>>> with it. >>>>>> >>>>>> $100 million in the mind '90s was hardly a "token". >>>>> >>>>> For an individual, sure, but to M$ as a cost of doing business, likely >>>>> worth it. >>>> >>>> In 1995, Microsoft's net income after taxes were $1,453,000,000. >>>> >>>> So $100 million was almost 7% of that. >>>> >>>> Hardly a "token". >>>> >>>> And that's what they paid to avoid a suit. >>> >>> How much did Windows XP or 7 bring in? >> >> I literally just told you what Microsoft net income was at the time. > > > It "literally" is before XP, thus not making the case M$ lost > anything, here. > The subject was whether or not Windows NT copied much of its design and architecture from VMS. It did. It was so obvious that Microsoft paid DEC 7% of what their net income was in 1995 to avoid a lawsuit. 7% of a company's income is NOT a token amount.
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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 14:40 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 12:58 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 17:05 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 16:43 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 19:51 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 17:54 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 21:23 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 18:35 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 21:40 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 20:13 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-03 15:05 -0500
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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-05 23:33 -0800
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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 09:42 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 13:03 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 10:19 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 13:23 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 10:53 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 14:17 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 11:23 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 14:36 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 15:49 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 19:01 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 16:20 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 19:35 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 16:41 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 19:54 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 16:56 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 20:09 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 17:12 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 20:23 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 17:27 -0800
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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 17:49 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 20:55 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 18:05 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 21:11 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-06 18:58 -0800
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 22:08 -0500
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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2025-01-06 13:56 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 14:25 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2025-01-06 13:55 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2025-01-06 13:53 -0500
Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> - 2025-01-06 08:21 -0500
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