Re: NTLK RE: newtontalk V1 #13

From: Robert Benschop (robertbenschop@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 03:54:28 EST


on 28-03-2000 19:00, Craig Lawrence at craigl@istar.ca wrote:

> Does anyone
> know who has tried to buy the technology and are they any closer to
> success?

It will never be bought, people tried at the time and Apple asked impossible
amounts of money making clear that they didn't really want to sell (since
they didn't want to license either)

> Is there some statute of limitations on Apple's hold?

Not on their technology AFAIK, at least not for the foreseeable future.

> Where are the programmers and designers that worked on it?

All over the place.

The most bitter thing is that slowly some things will creep up on WinCE
machines, but who knows, maybe MS will get it (sort of) right in it's fourth
incarnation.

Robert Benschop

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