On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 22:45:56 +0200, KatolaZ wrote in message <20180604204556.xhljswr4dfxui...@katolaz.homeunix.net>:
> 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. ..the 1987ish QDOS? > > HND > > KatolaZ > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
