11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
2:47 p.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
I think Gary would have had a better shot of suing
Seattle Computer
Products as they were the ones that originally cloned CP/M for the
8086 (and
licensed the codebase to Microsoft (for
years---eventually Microsoft
would
buy the license outright from Seattle Computer
Products)).
The question is whether QDOS/86-DOS/MS-DOS/IBM-DOS actually contained
any code from CP/M. It's one thing to develop a clone that supports
essentially the same APIs, and another to actually copy the code. I've
heard numerous people claim that the code was copied, but I haven't ever
seen hard evidence of that.