Re: Bill Gate$.

[leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

From: Joe Chiasson <jd.chiasson@ns.sympatico.ca>
> >         The only ideas Bill Gates came up with were to purchase or rip
off other
> > peoples great ideas. Gates didn't code DOS for IBM, he bought it for $50K
> > outright then "leased" it IBM on a per machine basis. MS-DOS evolved by
> > buying or stealing other coders enhancements to the original product. As
> > Microsoft evolved, most small development companies dreamed of having MS
> > knock on the door to buy their firm. Other firms that wished to remain
> > independent ended up having their idea stolen anyway (ie: Stac
compression).
>
> And Bills not even good at stealing it. I think it was DOS version 4.1 had
to be
> recalled 'cause it was found by the courts to contain code exactly as
written by
> another firm.

As I recall it DOS 4.x was not Bill's fault. Most of the changes from DOS 3.x
were
supplied by IBM...

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