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 -- [ ~.,_ 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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