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May 30, 2003

Pocket Change

According to stories on the net (e.g. BBC and Cnet ), Microslosh has reached a settlement with AOL for destroying Nutscrape. During the dispute we got to see entertaining snippets of the "World According to Microslosh"(tm) such as personal emails from Bill Gates (that refered to p*ss*ng on Nutscrape) and evidence of Microslosh employees attempting to cheat the court with faked videos.

As part of the settlement, AOL gets 7 years of royalty free access to Internet Exploder and information to help AOL make it's software work under Windows (maybe that should be shared around Microslash too - might help their apps to work better). In addition there is a small cash settlement - just $US750 million ($AU 1,150,030,000 - based on today's rate at XE.com).

Just think what good someone like Caritas could do with that much money.

Posted by Ozguru at May 30, 2003 10:05 AM

Comments

Bill's comments of course inspired a whole lot of graphics geeks out there. To see some of the best work, check out No-MSIE (Warning: Site contains inappropriate material for children including rude words and suggestive misbehaviour).

Posted by: ozguru at May 30, 2003 10:05 AM

It's funny that I read this post. I was just thinking the other day about how during the mid 90's Netscape tried to sell web browsers. Then along cames Microsoft giving away a browser with exactly the same version as Netscapes "premium version." I've never used Netscape since.

Posted by: Glenn at May 30, 2003 10:05 AM