On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 09:22:46 +0300, Lars wrote in message <26f8aa1d-718c-5cdf-7fda-3afbb0fbe...@gmail.com>:
> On 06/04/2018 11:45 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:47:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > >> KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> 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 $75K turned out to be a rip-off. I cannot find > anything specific to the resettlement. However, here are two decent > articles about the origins of MS-DOS > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-10-24/the-man-who-could-have-been-bill-gates > > https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/print-edition/2015/05/01/microsoft-bought-tim-paterson-s-dos-for-75k-the.html ..interesting, so Gary Kildall died at the ripe old age of 52, "after falling in a tavern", "he had become embittered and struggled with alcohol", in 1994, when enough case law on intellectual property had made filing a lawsuit and getting court orders on infringement etc, possible and viable. Sounds familiar, "we learn something new, every day." ..try searching your vague recollections at http://groklaw.net/ , we dug up a _lot_ of crazy old bat shit crazy stuff. > I'm not sure why M$ 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. ..my guess is they want personal ID data on all GPL etc developers for "Endlösung" litigation, M$ spent 11 years and US $4G+ learning going- after-IBM-etc-angry-big-boys-with-angry-big-pockets-does-not-work, small mom&pop shops are much, much, much easier to push over and down the drain, because we cannot afford the average US $3M settlement. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
