>(McFan provides no sources or facts to back any of this up, but I don't see >why that should concern anyone.)
Do you think old-timers aren't providing sources because they are giving first-person accounts? http://aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html "1982 - Digital Research sues Microsoft and IBM - Wins - It was obvious MS-DOS and its PC-DOS variant were simply rip- offs of Digital Research's CP/M operating system. It remained only to prove it contained DR code. DR's Gary Kildall sat down at an IBM PC supplied by IBM and, using a secret code, got it to pop up a Digital Research copyright notice. It's case won, Digital Research received monetary compensation and the right to clone MS-DOS. This is why Microsoft never sued DR over DR-DOS, but used every other means to destroy it. The settlement was under a strict non- disclosure agreement, so few even know DR sued, never mind that they won." But you can't ask Gary Kildall, he died under mysterious circumstances (blunt-force trauma). ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
