February 1, 2007
Cisco and Apple agree to talk out their differences
Posted Feb. 1, ’07, 8:19 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Legal
Lawsuits. What would we do without you? You’re our bread-and-butter of late. Deprived of your constant haranguing, arguing, and firing of warning shots we’d be reduced to covering the details of the Vista launch. More. And that way lies madness.
In the ongoing battle for control of the world’s most powerful trademark, the iPhone, plaintiff Cisco has pulled a maneuver we here at MacUser are calling “the Cisco kid.” As in “oh, we were just kidding about the whole lawsuit thing.” The networking monolith has stepped back from its hardline, DEFCON 1 stance:
Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to extend the time Apple has to respond to Cisco’s lawsuit surrounding the iPhone, in order to discuss trademark rights and interoperability, the companies said late Wednesday.What could have changed their minds? Well, I have a theory. Picture this, if you will: the setting, an executive conference room. On one side of the table, Steve Jobs and a solitary Apple lawyer; on the other, Cisco CEO John Chambers and an army of legal experts. Jobs scrawls something on a cocktail napkin, shows it to the lawyer, who nods his approval, then slips it over to Chambers. Chambers takes it and peers at it, finding Jobs’s final offer scrawled in spidery handwriting: “I’ll let you live, Johnny boy.”
Of course, that’s just a theory. Maybe he just promised Chambers an iPhone with a free eighteen months of service—it could go either way.
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'I'll let you live, Johnny boy!'
That is about the funniest thing I have read in a long time. I laughed my ass off!