(some) big corporations _do_ thefting. For example, Sony theft Walkman idea (AFAIR, from Bulgarian inventor), Logitech was reject co-operation with Russian developers, but then (quietly) reuse their ideas in own mice. :(
I didn't know those things, and they only support my anti-corporate attitude :-(
Lattice C -> Microsoft C,
Do you sure, that MSC is a LC?
Yes. Here is a quote from the book "IBM's Personal Computer" by Chris DeVoney, Que Corporation, Indianalopopis, 1983, page 214:
C
[...] Digital Research developed its own version of C, whereas Microsoft licensed its compiler for MS-DOS from Lattice Associates of New York. Microsoft has enhanced this version of C with several additional functions and programming tools.
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