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Re: Another IDE Bug!

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 17, 2001
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That is quite interesting. Back in those days the Theos OS was around ( a
competitor to CP/M called OASIS) and Tim Wms also had a back door secret
code on OASIS. Do you think they expected ripoff's?? The story goes that
when IBM went looking for an OS for their PC they set up meetings with 3 of
the GRU's of the time, Bill, Tim, and one other I can't remember.  Bill was
the only one with the business sense to show up for the meeting. The other's
did not. What a big mistake.....

...george

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irv Mullins" <irvm at ellijay.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Another IDE Bug!


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> On Friday 17 August 2001 11:01, president at insight-concepts.com wrote:
> >
> >  C. K. Lester wrote:
> > >I think I'll switch to OS X on a PowerMac G4 (dual processor).
> > >Apparently
> > >those guys are not only fast, but they do the dishes and laundry.
> > >They also
> > >do Windows...
> >
> > A few years ago I would of agreed with you, but PC computers have
> > surpassed the MAC. If you wait a few more months, Windows XP will
> > finally be released. XP is th best thing Microsoft has developed
> > since DOS or Win95.
>
> Microsoft "developed" DOS?
> I don't think so.
> If someone wanted to be very diplomatic about it, one might use the
> word "appropriated".
>
> See http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html#dr
>
> Quote:
> 1982 - Digital Research sues Microsoft and IBM - Wins - . It was obvious
> MS-DOS and its PC-DOS variant were simply rip- offs of Digital Research's
> CP/M operating system. It remained only to prove it contained DR code.
DR's
> Gary Kildall sat down at an IBM PC supplied by IBM and, using a secret
code,
> got it to pop up a Digital Research copyright notice.
>
> It's case won, Digital Research received monetary compensation and the
right
> to clone MS-DOS. This is why Microsoft never sued DR over DR-DOS, but used
> every other means to destroy it. The settlement was under a strict non-
> disclosure agreement, so few even know DR sued, never mind that they won.
>
> End Quote.
>
> This is just one of a long list of cases where Microsoft has been sued for
> "appropriating" someone else's work (and lost). We don't often hear of
> these cases, because MS standard operating procedure is to pay off the
> loss and demand a gag order regarding the settlement terms.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
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