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Stephen Gary Wozniak (/ˈwɒzniæk/; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.
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Bill Gates didn’t do that out of the kindness of his heart. He did it because the feds had Microsoft on their sights in an antitrust case and Microsoft needed someone to point at to say “See? We have competition”
That monopoly issue and fines had come and gone years before this.
Nonsense. They didn’t reach a judgement until 5 years after Microsoft’s 1997 investment in Apple, and it was appealed until 2007
https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-microsoft-corporation-browser-and-middleware#district
That was the 2nd time they got in trouble. Not the first where the government was poking around on them for OS monopoly practices. You’re talking about what happened around 1998 and it was mostly for using its size to crush Netscape as a web browser by bundling their own Microsoft browser for free, along with some other software bundled things. That suit had nothing to do with being a monopoly over operating systems or PC hardware. In other words, it had nothing to do with anything Apple was involved with at the time.