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Just Cloning Around (9/29/97)
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Rumors are flying that Steve Jobs has offered the Edinburgh-based Roslin Institute and pharmaceuticals company PPL Therapeutics $150 million for their clone license and all related technologies. When Ian Wilmut, an Institute member, bewilderedly replied that they had no license to sell, Jobs reportedly ordered Apple's legal department to force Roslin and PPL to cease and desist all cloning activities at once.

Wilmut, shaken by the threat of legal action, flew to Cupertino to meet with Jobs in a high-level meeting, where he insisted that the Roslin/PPL project deals only in genetic cloning (remember Dolly the sheep?), and has no interest in manufacturing Mac OS-compatible computer systems. Under intense questioning, he admitted that it was, in fact, genetically possible to create a sheep that CHRPs, at which point Jobs refused to certify any such animal.

Eventually the befuddled Wilmut assured Jobs that all clones resulting from the project would require Apple ROMs in order to run Mac OS 8, at which point Jobs was appeased and all threats of legal action were dropped.

(Many thanx to Larry Auerbach for the initial tip.)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/29/97 episode:

September 29, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

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