On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 22:45:56 +0200, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20180604204556.xhljswr4dfxui2hs@???>:

> 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.

..the 1987ish QDOS?

>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>


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