:If you are referring to Microsoft's accusation and licensing of DOS to IBM in 1981- there was nothing fraudulent about that deal.
When IBM approached MS for a 8086 OS, MS referred them to Digital Research (DR) and their 8080 OS (CP/M). DR's CEO's wife refused to let IBM representatives in the house. IBM representatives then asked MS if they can help them on a short notice for a 8086 PC that was due to ship within a year. MS looked and found Tim Patterson who previously authored DOS (a CP/M compatible clone based on DR's manual). So MS bought DOS from Tim, hired Tim to port DOS to 8086, re-branded the ported version as MS-DOS, licensed MS-DOS to IBM and, according to you, when you add all that up - Bill Gates is a fraud 8/"
That certainly is a lot of legalease to throw at a comment. Why so serious?
I'm not sure what you mean. That is the exact sequence of events.
I looked it up when someone herp-derped the ol' "hurr durr Gates stole DOS cuz hes a poser" non-point years ago. Now it's my mission to go around internet correcting the misconception.
:If you are referring to Microsoft's accusation and licensing of DOS to IBM in 1981- there was nothing fraudulent about that deal.
When IBM approached MS for a 8086 OS, MS referred them to Digital Research (DR) and their 8080 OS (CP/M). DR's CEO's wife refused to let IBM representatives in the house. IBM representatives then asked MS if they can help them on a short notice for a 8086 PC that was due to ship within a year. MS looked and found Tim Patterson who previously authored DOS (a CP/M compatible clone based on DR's manual). So MS bought DOS from Tim, hired Tim to port DOS to 8086, re-branded the ported version as MS-DOS, licensed MS-DOS to IBM and, according to you, when you add all that up - Bill Gates is a fraud 8/"
That certainly is a lot of legalease to throw at a comment. Why so serious?
I'm not sure what you mean. That is the exact sequence of events.
I looked it up when someone herp-derped the ol' "hurr durr Gates stole DOS cuz hes a poser" non-point years ago. Now it's my mission to go around internet correcting the misconception.
There could be worse missions in life of course!