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macintux on July 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the P...

The "bailout" was a payoff for IP infringement and was small potatoes, something like $150 million.

rstupek on July 22, 2015 [–]

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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