Posted on 10/29/2013 10:24:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
RIP.
Of course Killdal had the right to sell his own software. But good effort at splitting hairs, there. That doesn’t change the fact of where what became PC DOS came from. Sure, Gates and Allen became very wealthy off of that deal. Good for them. But don’t go trying to pass off Gates as being such a great technical innovator with DOS when someone else wrote it and what he sold to IBM was a rip off of CP/M.
MS made significant changes to DOS before they gave it to IBM. They worked day and night for months to get it ready. Even then, they gave Killdal the right to the result. Killdal simply did nothing with it.
Basically, they snookered him. “Here you go, Gary...we’ll give everyone who buys an IBM PC the option of PC DOS or CP/M.” Of course they didn’t tell him that DOS was going to be bundled in for $40 but CP/M was going to cost $240. Gates and Co. were much better at conning and scamming people than they were at innovation.
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