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Только мелкие и могут их спасти!Ой-ой, а что, MS хотя бы раз кого-то спасла?
Что именно сподвигло Гейтса на этот шаг я не знаю,Так вот, я отлично помню, что происходило в конце 90-х, MS в то время была «у края пропасти» в виде громадного антимонопольного разбирательства, в результате которого чуть-было не расчленили компанию. В 1997 году Гейтс уже понимал это. Ему нужна была слабая Apple, чтобы показать антимонопольным органам, что у него есть конкуренты. Так что «спасение» Apple было больше нужно MS, а не самой Apple. А сказки про благородство Гейтса — полная чушь.
речь шла не столько об антимонопольных делах, сколько о внесудебном урегулированииЕщё раз попробую донести свою точку зрение — т.н. «спасение» Apple это никакой не жест доброй воли, а обычная взаимовыгодная сделка, которая была взаимовыгодна в равной степени обеим компаниям.
Date decided: September 19, 1994
The district court ruled that it would require a standard of «virtual identity» between Windows and the Macintosh at trial in order for Apple to prove copyright infringement. Apple believed this to be too narrow of a standard and that a more broad «look and feel» was all that should be necessary at trial. As a result, both parties agreed that a jury trial was unnecessary given the rulings, and Apple filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in order to have the district court's characterization overruled.[5]
After the district court ruled in favor of Microsoft, Apple appealed the decision arguing that the district court only considered infringements on the individual elements of Apple's GUI, rather than the interface as a whole. The appeals court almost entirely affirmed the ruling of the district court, establishing that, «almost all the similarities spring either from the license or from basic ideas and their obvious expression… illicit copying could occur only if the works as a whole are virtually identical.»[1] However, the circuit court did reverse the district court's decision not to award attorney's fees to Microsoft, clarifying and sending the case back to the district court to resolve the issue.
The circuit court dissected the GUI, following the lead of the district court, in order to separate expression from ideas (as expression, but not ideas, are covered by copyright law).[6] The court outlined five ideas that it identified as basic to a GUI desktop: windows, icon images of office items, manipulations of icons, menus, and the opening and closing of objects.[1] The court established that Apple could not make copyright claims based on these ideas and could only make claims on the precise expression of them.
The court also pointed out that many of Apple's claims fail on an originality basis. Apple admittedly licensed many of its representations from Xerox, and copyright protection only extends to original expression. Apple returned to its «complete look and feel» argument, stating that while the individual components were not original, the complete GUI was. The court rejected these arguments because the parts were not original.
In 1997, three years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's «QuickTime piracy» lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer their default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of nonvoting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement.
Later testimony in the United States v. Microsoft case 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.
In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the «Look & Feel» lawsuit and the «QuickTime source code» lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser.
In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next 5 years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
Никто никому не помогал, и акции, и офис, и IE были результатом урегулирования судебного разбирательства.
Покупка акций на 150кк была результатом урегулирования судебной тяжбы.
Nokia хочет использовать технологии Scalado для улучшения своих телефонов Lumia.уволит 10 тысяч человек… Кроме того, будут уволены три руководителяВместо этих вместе взятых, нужно уволить одного Элопа. Пользы будет значительно больше.
Кроме того, будут уволены три руководителя:
директор по маркетингу Джерри Девард, исполнительный вице-президент по мобильным телефонам Мэри Макдауэлл и исполнительный вице-президент по рынкам Никлас Савандер
Nokia продаёт Vertu и готовится уволить 10 тысяч сотрудников