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matradley
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Re: What?

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Usually they don't develop products, they buy them?? What? Uhh, don't they develop the most widely used OS and Office productivity suite for the consumer and business market?
Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x.
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said by matradley See Profile :

said by Jeffrey See Profile :

Usually they don't develop products, they buy them?? What? Uhh, don't they develop the most widely used OS and Office productivity suite for the consumer and business market?
Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x.
Eesh... I don't think even Jobs would claim that MicroSoft had borrowed anything for Windows 1.x.
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AnonProxy
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not this crap again...
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BillRoland
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said by matradley See Profile :

Yes and no. Bill Gates did 'pay' for the original version of DOS for ~$50 000 and then 'borrowed' Steve Job's interface for Windows 1.x.
And DOS is irrelevant because it's dead, and we all know Steve-O borrowed the GUI from Xerox.

Tired old arguments.
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"Don't steal. The government hates competition."
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batterup
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said by BillRoland See Profile :

And DOS is irrelevant because it's dead, .......
How do you boot from a floppy. I know what is a floppy.
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