21 Aug
2015
21 Aug
'15
3:25 p.m.
Where would
MICROS~1 be if Gary Kildall were to have been litigious?
How so? Digital Research spurned IBM, and would have
had to take IBM
on as well as Microsoft. Litigious or not, it would have been a
seriously uphill battle.
The influence and basis on, of MS-DOS and CP/M is undenied.
In fact, the clear copyright issue was apparently why IBM chose to ALSO
sell CP/M-86. However, there are disagreements about whether the pricing
choice was an IBM effort to sabotage the CP/M-86 sales, or a serious error
by DRI. (I believe the latter)
But, Gary (and Xerox Parc) was not litigious.