On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:47:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > > Whatever people say on twitter, Microsoft has never changed and never > > will. It's the same company that stole BASIC. The same company that > > stole DOS. > > While I am no fan of MS and it's tactics, they didn't steal DOS. They bought > it outright for what the person selling it accepted as a fair price. It's an > interesting story of how one decision changed the direction of the software > world, and one of those points in history where with the benefit of 20:20 > hindsight it's easy to say "he did WHAT !"
You are right: they "bought" DOS from a "third party" which had developed DOS out of an unlicensed source version of Digital Research CP/M, and called it MS-DOS. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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