re re challenge to microsoft supporters in article c y mz dnp news claremont edu tlilley jarthur claremont edu ted writes in article timbolc y b n netcom com timbol netcom com mike timbol writes anyway how about this i give you my word without naming sources that ibm paid companies to write applications for os satisfied not really query what do you mean by paid are you implying that helped to offset development costs or paid for the entire cost of producing the product i mean they paid the companies that developed the applications i e we ll give you x million dollars if you port application y to os i suppose the company in question could use the x million dollars for whatever they want would you like to post figures for ms as well i suppose ted no i d rather not first of all i don t have exact figures and i don t want to disclose how i know this however i will say that jim francis from microsoft just posted a figure of million payment from ibm to borland and that s somewhere in the range that i ve heard mike
