[Coco][Color Computer] Anyone following the latest Microsoftand Linux debacles?

[Charles Richmond]

>Actully IBM never wanted to enter the small computer market but so 
>many of its old customers wanted it that they set up a plant in 
>China to do the hardware and subcontracted Bill Gates to do 
>software...Bill Gates did both DOS and OS/2 1.x....When the PC took 
>off, 10X expectations,  IBM decided to do its own software in house 
>and MS Dos and Windows was off on its own.....
>
>As for Tandy...The head of Model 1 project was a big wig at IBM and 
>he was told to bring as many people with him as he wanted...Tandy 
>made Bill big enough so IBM looked at him and IBM made him so big 
>nobody can stop him....
>
Tad

Correct, except that Bill Gates *never* wrote a line of code for DOS 
or OS/2..so he did *not* do it, his minions did. And you are leaving 
out the immoral business practices and intellectual property theft 
that is the hallmark of Microsoft. Their innovation is to take what 
someone else has done...

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