On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 11:38:16PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 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?
> 

Nope, it was 1981, not 1987, and it was 86-DOS, not QDOS. I was just a
toddler at that time, but the story is so well-known that it's also
mentioned in a wikipedia page:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

What Wikipedia might not say in that page is that Seattle Computer
Product had obtained 86-DOS by modifying an unlicensed source version
of CP/M most probably stolen to a legal Digital Research
licensee. Also this story is quite well-known. Nevertheless, 86-DOS
was acquired by Microsoft and called MS-DOS, MS-DOS was licensed by
Microsoft to IBM and shipped with the first IBM PC as PC-DOS. The rest
of the story should be well-known as well.

HND

KatolaZ

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