11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
2:30 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
On 11 Oct 2011 at 10:49, Fred Cisin wrote:
That'd be kind of difficult to pull off now, dontcha think?
I know that Gary's buddies urged him to sue Microsoft, but he just
wasn't that sort of person. It could have gotten pretty costly,
considering that BillG would likely have had his daddy's law firm
(Vogel & Gates) handling the case on a priority basis.
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)).
-spc
>
Gates steals daily from almost everyone who uses a personal
> computer.
I think that he owes Gary Kildall an apology.