On 06/04/2018 11:45 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:47:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: >> KatolaZ <[email protected]> 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.
I had a vague recollection that M$ had to resettle over the price because the initial $75K turned out to be a rip-off. I cannot find anything specific to the resettlement. However, here are two decent articles about the origins of MS-DOS https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-10-24/the-man-who-could-have-been-bill-gates https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/print-edition/2015/05/01/microsoft-bought-tim-paterson-s-dos-for-75k-the.html I'm not sure why M$ bought GitHub other than, based on their M.O., it provides some means to hurt their competitors. Remember that nearly all of the major projects stored in GitHub are competitors to M$ and now M$ will have access to that code. /Lars _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
