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Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it.

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
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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
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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 21:23 -0500
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                Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-02 20:13 -0800
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                Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-03 14:55 -0800
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                Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-01-03 17:41 -0800
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                Re: Racist Apple is targeting blacks only and abusing white women to do it. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-05 21:27 -0500
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