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Good lawyering
One thing that is often forgotten
is the fact that, when Gates
purchased and licensed dos to
IBM, the contract was the "killer
app".

It required IBM to pay for DOS on
every machine whether they used
it or not, while allowing MS to
license DOS to anybody. Later
MS was able to require other
licensees to sign the same
contract.

That contract provided the cash
cow and effectively killed any
early competitors to MSDOS.

So a lot of Gates' money could be
attributed to a crafty lawyer
somewhere.
Posted by: j.m.galvin   Posted on: 06/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Good lawyering  j.m.galvin | 06/27/08
also fud illegal monopoly and the rest  Quebec-french | 06/27/08
That was much later  j.m.galvin | 06/27/08
IBM wanted the PC to fail  jorjitop | 06/27/08
Ri diculous!  Henry Miller | 06/29/08
RE: Thoughts on Bill Gates  chuckleberry | 06/27/08
Judge Jackson was his own worse enemy  Kaiwai | 06/28/08
Thoughts on Dollar Bill  Roger Ramjet | 06/27/08
Playing "fair" is for sports  Confused by religion | 06/27/08
like spygate? (nt)  n0neXn0ne | 06/27/08
Which is why...  John L. Ries | 06/27/08
Platform for What?  Harry Bardal | 06/27/08
RE: Thoughts on Bill Gates  Loverock Davidson | 06/27/08
Apparently...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/27/08
I should have bought their stock when they were selling MBasic...  Mac Hosehead | 06/27/08
RE: Thoughts on Bill Gates  Richard Flude | 06/28/08
Yes, reverse engineering the PC BIOS...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/30/08
What would Microsoft be without Steve Jobs?  mlindl | 06/29/08
RE:What would Microsoft be without Steve Jobs?  readwrite | 06/29/08
Daddy's money, non-restrictive OS contract with IBM  Richard Flude | 06/29/08
I disagree completely  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/29/08
The concept was software that runs on ANY hardware?  Henry Miller | 06/29/08
Interesting point...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 06/30/08
Paul Allen  TedKraan | 07/09/08

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