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by abanana 31 days ago
Yeah that was a big part of it, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it more important than preventing immediate bankruptcy.

"We'll give you a wodge of cash and we'll keep supplying Office for Mac, so you can continue to supply the market with a rival to our OS at a volume that's insignificant to us, but just significant enough to prevent Windows from falling under the DoJ's definition of a monopoly".