4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
5:39 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 willisjo at zianet.com wrote:
Tim Patterson was hired by Microsoft for a period of
time.
He wrote a good description of some of the design decisions
as a magazine article in DDJ.
He also had a company called "Falcon Technologies?"
Either his company, or SCP, ALSO had rights to MS-DOS.
Which company was it:
When it was in financial straits (~1987?), a number of
biggies were interested in buying just to get rights to MS-DOS.
MS sued to block sale, but then changed their minds and
simply outbid the other buyers.
I've always maintained that Novell's purchase of DRI
wasfor the sole purpose of owning the CP/M copyright,
to protect themselves from MS.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com