[klelatti]

Ah, the Apple has a perpetual royalty free license meme. Almost certainly a myth.

Very, very unlikely anyone would get a perpetual license that covers all future products just because they were a founding shareholder.

I did some detective work on this a while ago for my newsletter (link in bio) from behind the paywall:

> … Apple and Acorn were paying royalty fees soon after they founded the company why should that change to grant Apple a royalty-free license at some point later?