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DOS was purchased by Gates from another developer who seems to have
derived it from CP/M<br>
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IBM bought DOS from gates before he even owned it, thus establishing
a pattern of vaporware that persists even today in the Microsoft
marketing system.<br>
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IBM bought DOS from Gates because the owner of DR-DOS decided he
would prefer to be flying his plane than talk to a bunch of
establishment white shirts from IBM.<br>
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Both Gates and Jobs saw the first GUI at Xerox PARC.<br>
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Jobs saw it first and had the first version on the streets.<br>
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When Gates put out Win1.0 ther5e ws a very loud pissing contest and
court suits, that Microsoft won establishing the standard that you
can't copyright the look and feel of an operating system. This gives
us X-Windows.<br>
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The animosity lasted as long as Jobs was alive, alth9ugh they looked
like they had grudgingly kissed and made up at their last public
appearance.<br>
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Ancient history long before many of you were born.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2014 11:34 AM, Stephen
Partington wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">This is a rather simple answer for a look on story. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 18, 2014 11:29 AM, "Michael
Havens" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br
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<div dir="ltr">Linux is built off of GNU. What is BSD built
off of? And then there is Windows. I heard that Windows was
built off of Unix. If that is the case was no one paying
attention to copyright laws?<br clear="all">
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<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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