Gates had a meeting with IBM promising a new OS. The thing is, they had nothing. So they came to a guy who was developing the original DOS, although it was rough and not finished. Bought the OS from his for I think 42000 dollars and later came back to IBM to show it to their executives and made a multi million dollar licensing deal with them and renamed it to MSDOS.
Yeah, bill gates literally stole DOS.
Watch a movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley, its a movie about how both gates and jobs started MS and Apple. There is a wonderful scene that shows what I just told you. The movie is really good.
This happens all over capitalism. One similar thing that comes to mind is how Ray Croc basically ruined the McDonald brothers with his tactics to force the sale of their fledgling company, McDonald’s, to him.
wait what, really?
Gates had a meeting with IBM promising a new OS. The thing is, they had nothing. So they came to a guy who was developing the original DOS, although it was rough and not finished. Bought the OS from his for I think 42000 dollars and later came back to IBM to show it to their executives and made a multi million dollar licensing deal with them and renamed it to MSDOS.
Yeah, bill gates literally stole DOS.
Watch a movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley, its a movie about how both gates and jobs started MS and Apple. There is a wonderful scene that shows what I just told you. The movie is really good.
This happens all over capitalism. One similar thing that comes to mind is how Ray Croc basically ruined the McDonald brothers with his tactics to force the sale of their fledgling company, McDonald’s, to him.
I think they were referring to CP/M which DOS is heavily based off of.