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Everyone thought it was $150M but it turned out to be $280M. Not that that makes much of a difference for Microsoft.

The agreement has been public since 2009.

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/NovvMS-104-8.pdf

> Microsoft also debated the exact language the message should contain. In the end, senior vice president Brad Silverberg said in a 1992 email that the message needed to steer users away from DR-DOS. "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS," Silverberg wrote.




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