Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

Vic,

Not necessarily.  Perhaps they paid the $10,000,000 for the right to 
use the information they already knew, without the threat of 
litigation.

Bomber

--- In [email protected], "Vic Cross" <vic.cross@v...> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "commanonce" <philp@i...> wrote:
> > At one point they paid $10 million for six sides of paper - the 
> > contents of which they already knew.
> 
> Shows either IBM's unmitigated gall in asking for the money, or 
> Amdahl's stupidity in paying it.
> 
> > I find this extremely hard to reconcile with the repeated 
> > assertion that Hercules is based entirely on information in the 
> > public domain.
> 
> See point above: just because one is silly enough to pay money for 
> information one already knows, does not prove the information was 
> worth what was paid.  To either party.  Perhaps Amdahl simply woke 
> up to what was going on when it came to zArch, and called IBM's 
> bluff.
> 
> Cheers,
> Vic Cross


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