On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:47:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> 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 !"

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

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