Author: Simon Hobson Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> 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 !"