[robomartin]

Isn't Apple alive today partly because of a patent lawsuit with MS that they were going to loose? A I understand the story, in a twist of things, Jobs convinced Gates to invest over a hundred million in Apple, thereby saving the company.

[RandallBrown]

I believe that Jobs told Gates that Apple would likely win the lawsuit, but it would probably completely destroy Apple and seriously damage Microsoft. That's how I understood the story in the Steve Jobs biography anway.