I get so tired of this one. $150M does not bail out a $8B company. When Amelio left Apple, they had around a Billion in the Bank!
The $150 was, if you'd been following the news, an investment to cloak a larger payment to settle patent infringements by M$quish.
Also - I would bet the house that Jobs will never allow any substantial open source products from Apple, and if he ever gets canned - that'll be the reason.
Rhapsody is not vaporware, Steve demo'd it at MacWorld, and it's shipping next month. It's called OSX Server. Those people who rewrote their apps for Rhapsody: StoneDesign, et. al can run them on OSX Server.
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I get so tired of this one. $150M does not bail out a $8B company. When Amelio left Apple, they had around a Billion in the Bank!
The $150 was, if you'd been following the news, an investment to cloak a larger payment to settle patent infringements by M$quish.
Also - I would bet the house that Jobs will never allow any substantial open source products from Apple, and if he ever gets canned - that'll be the reason.
Rhapsody is not vaporware, Steve demo'd it at MacWorld, and it's shipping next month. It's called OSX Server. Those people who rewrote their apps for Rhapsody: StoneDesign, et. al can run them on OSX Server.