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Sat, 22 December 2007 23:45  |
Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005
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sales.<BR>>><BR>>>Steve =
>Jobs went=20
>to all the cloners and tried to renegotiate the =
>licensing<BR>>>prices, the=20
>cloners wouldn't hear of it, so Apple did not renew the=20
>licensing<BR>>>with Mac OS 8. Apple did not pull the=20
>licensing. The cloners could still<BR>>>build systems and =
>ship them=20
>with Mac OS 7.6 installed, and bundled OS 8,<BR>>>they chose not =
>to. =20
>PowerComputing announced after that, that they were<BR>> =
>going<BR>>>to=20
>start building PCs, which I think they did for a short time. In=20
>the<BR>> end,<BR>>>Apple bought out PowerComputing for 100 =
>million=20
>dollars in Apple stock.<BR>> <BR>>>I think that was pretty =
>generous of=20
>Apple. I believe it was up to Kahng<BR>>>to take care of his =
>workers=20
>from there.<BR>>><BR>>>As far as UMAX, they continued on for =
>years=20
>building scanners and other<BR>> products<BR>>>as they did =
>before they=20
>made clones.<BR>></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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>You guys are going to love this. I'm thinking about moving a Paris s
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