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
