Goodbye Nokia! Mission accomplished Elop, you have destroyed Nokia and return back to Microsoft (fastest collapse of a industry market leader in the history of mankind)

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Puppyroach said:
Aren't MS the ones who bought Apple shares in 97 which, in a lot of ways, saved Apple? Now they are investing in Nokia assets, basically saving that company. MS want these companies to survive, it benefits their business model as a software company.

Well technically, part of the MS share buy was that Apple would drop it's copyright infringement lawsuits.

It was sort of a case of Microsoft making a deal because they had leverage.  While Apple could of won it's case, it would of collapsed doing it, making the money they won a bittersweet victory.   This way, Microsoft got a significant "discount" from what the judgement could of been.

Or so goes the lore.