As an aside, what's this about "Microsoft and Intel worked to steal Apple's code representing proprietary video acceleration techniques" back in the day?
It's before my time, and the citation is a press release. Any one remember that?
It's before my time, and the citation is a press release. Any one remember that?
>The lawsuit, filed on December 6, 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10, 1995, alleging that Microsoft and Intel knowingly used the software company to aid them in stealing several thousand lines of Apple's QuickTime code in their effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.
On March 3, 1995, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited Microsoft from distributing its current version of Video for Windows.[1] Microsoft subsequently released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by San Francisco Canyon, stating in the release notes "does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation." Later testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac.[2]
https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon
Microsoft and Apple eventually settled and cross licensed their patent portfolios.
"Following a bizarre intervention that took the form of a late-night telephone call to Microsoft head-lawyer Bill Neukom by Ann Bingaman, the head of the DoJ's antitrust division, in response to a request from Edward Stead, then Apple's general counsel, this was at last supplied. The next day, Apple added Microsoft to the list of defendants in the San Jose court case. The sub-text of the dispute also began to emerge: 'Apple is also claiming that Microsoft has been using the code in question to mess up [Apple's] attempts to make QuickTime a standard.'"
Ty folks.