I agree, that's why they should have given it out for personal use years ago, maybe then Bill Gates would still be programming in his basement.
On 2 Feb 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 20:03, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > opps, I mean DR > > Digital Research made an _excellent_product_. Even Bill Gates admit so > in private Microsoft E-mails, and new they could only "win" by bundling > DOS and Windows as one product (hence Windows 95). > > Microsoft also used a "rebate" program to get rid of DR-DOS in markets > where they held a majority share -- e.g., Germany. Microsoft paid Vobis > tens of millions of dollars to drop DR-DOS, and gave them hundreds of > millions of dollars in free software. > > I _gladly_ shelled out $50 to buy DR-DOS. I had legal copies of DR-DOS > 5.0, 6.0 and Novell DR-DOS 7.0. I also now own the Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 > book, which came with one license. > > > it's too late for all that now, I meant yeasr ago when DOS actually > > counted. > > DOS is still the #1 selling OS! It's called Windows 98! It's really > MS-DOS 7.1 and Windows 4.1 bundled into one product. Caldera was able > to _replace_ the MS-DOS 7.0 component in Windows 95, and was working to > do the same with 7.1 in Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98. > > After stalling for several years, Microsoft finally settled out of court > with Caldera for ~$300M (actual amount was never disclosed). Caldera > figured it the money would help fund Linux development better than > continued litigation. > > > especially with Bill Gates at the keyboard:) > > ??? I meant Caldera may have prevented Concurrent from releasing a "for > personal use only" version. > > Regarding DR-DOS prior to Novell/Caldera ownership, it was worth every > penny IMHO. And they only charged OEMs ~$13/copy on average. > > -- Bryan > > -- > Bryan J. Smith, Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org > SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > 1999 IRS Data: The top 1% of income earners pay over 36% > of the taxes, but have less than 20% of the total income. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
