> On Jan 15, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <w...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse. They would approach a small >> company: “We like your product/technology, we think we are interested in >> buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is >> modular/well-documented/etc.” Then, after looking over the code: “Well, it >> actually doesn’t fit our plans. Sorry.” Six months or so later, >> essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$soft product. > > More out of curiosity than anything else, do you have a source?
"Startup" by Jerry Kaplan was about an early PDA in the late 1980's that got reviewed and later copied by Microsoft. Great book about Silicon Valley product development Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
