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Pirated XP, means-test everyone and every product with "income
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They will be spending A Whole Lots More Than what Bill Gated Paid IBM for DOS ( $300.00) and then he got a Job with Apple and Retro fitted their Graphics Interface as to work with His DOS.( windows 1.0).and paid Apple $0.00) That is an outright lie. Bill Gates purchased a predecessor version of MS-DOS from Seattle Computing, and paid them their full price for it. Bill and his partners and employees then further developed the product into MS-DOS and entered into a *non-exclusive per-machine licensing* agreement with IBM whereby IBM could use MS-DOS but Microsoft was free to license it to others as well, and to further develop and modify the product. That agreement - to license rather than sell MS-DOS to IBM was the one that gave Microsoft its big start, as sales of IBM PCs (and therefore the license fees paid by IBM to Microsoft) quickly exceeded the wildest expectations that IBM ever had for these sales. And as others have pointed out, the graphical interface was developed by Xerox Research and both Apple and Microsoft used that research to develop their own graphic based operating systems. Apple beat Microsoft to the market with theirs, but Microsoft included backwards compatibility and Apple did not, which was a major factor in the success of the Microsoft system. That, and Apple's insistence on keeping everything proprietary and totally under their control. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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