Behind Every fortune, there is a (series of ) crime !!
regards
Praseed Pai
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From: aravind vijayan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:08 PM
Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Open Letter to Hobbyists
Hi here i have a copy-paste work, just a time-pass .
Some holding others credits, as a business i have nothing wrong
against ms but there exists an unusual history of MS. Apologizing for
the loosely typed stuff. The thing lead to me this is the film
Pirates of silicon valley .
The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter
written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of microsoft, to early personal
computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant
copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community,
particularly with regard to his company's software.
“ His
company's software”, microsoft Established on
April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair
8800.The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro
Instrumentation and Telemetry System's (MITS) Altair 8800
microcomputer. Allen noticed that they could program a BASIC
interpreter for the device; after a call from Gates claiming to have
a working interpreter, MITS requested a demonstration. Since
they didn't actually have one (beginning) , Allen worked on a simulator
for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter. The same Paul Allen has
accused his former
business partner Bill Gates of plotting to dilute Allen's stake in
the world's largest software company before he left in 1983, and
tried to buy his share of the company on the cheap. It's something
about “ His
company's First software” & co-founder.
When
asked about microsoft's use of open source software, company
spokesperson Rick Miller told Betanews, "We do run a small
percentage of FreeBSD on our network. Our use of FreeBSD at Hotmail,
however, is simply a legacy issue from when we purchased Hotmail. Yes
it is legacy because microsoft
entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called
Xenix.
After negotiations with Digital Research
failed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft in November 1980 to
provide a version of the CP/M OS, which was set to be used in the
upcoming IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). For this deal, Microsoft
purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, branding
it as MS-DOS,
which IBM rebranded to PC-DOS. Following the release of the IBM PC in
August 1981, Microsoft retained ownership of MS-DOS. While
jointly developing a new OS with IBM in 1984, OS/2,
Microsoft releasedMicrosoft Windows,
a graphical
extension for MS-DOS,
on November 20. In 1988, Apple sued Microsoft for copyright
infringement of the LISA and Apple Macintosh GUI. . Neither DOS nor
Windows (Interface Manager).
First reported by the Wall Street Journal, FreeBSD developer
Trevor Johnson determined that Microsoft was still using the open
source operating system for DNS hosting and also for tracking
advertisements. It has also been reported that FreeBSD software
components are utilized in Microsoft products, such as Windows 2000.
BSD's TCP/IP stack, a vital communication protocol, is rumored to
have been used in several Windows operating systems, enabling users
to connect to the Internet.
Microsoft
hired Charles Simonyi, Bravo's "father", in 1981, and
Multi-Tool Word was released for Xenix in 1983. It was ported to
MS-DOS later in the year, where the name was simplified to Word. Word
was the first WYSIWYG (or semi-WYSIWYG) word processing program for
DOS - it could display bold, italic, and underlined text, although it
could not display different typefaces or sizes.
PowerPoint was
invented by Bob Gaskins at Forethought in Sunnyvale, California,
starting in 1984; it shipped (for Macintosh) in 1987 and was bought
by Microsoft about six months later.
VisiCalc was
eventually supplanted by more powerful versions, such as SuperCalc in
1980 and Microsoft Excel in 1983. The original software, which was
never patented by its creators, was bought by Lotus Development
Corporation and used as the basis for their own popular spreadsheet
product, Lotus 1-2-3. Today, Dan Bricklin continues to maintain a
modified, but working, copy of the program on his website.
microsoft paint -
It is/was a licensed version of Zsoft's PC Paintbrush, dating back
before 1985. The actual author of the software would have to be at
least mid 30s, if not closer to late 40s.
At the time,
Sybase called the database server "Sybase SQL Server" and
made a deal with Microsoft to share the source code for Microsoft to
remarket on the OS/2 platform as "SQL Server". Until
version 4.9, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server were virtually
identical.
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