If Microsoft made the source code for Windows public then HP (which bought Compaq, which bought DEC) would finally be able to prove Microsoft plagiarized the VMS kernel.
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If that’s all it needs then HP needs to contact me ... I was thoroughly involved in the very similar case of NCR/Comten (ex-Bell Labs) theft of IBM’s VTAM that NCR could never quite get right on their boxes (memory leaks) ,, they were so stupid that they even left in the comments from the original IBM code...
Give me $10M and I’ll get them the code from an unimpeachable source .. It may not be legally admissible but it’d absolutely kill MS... and I’m all for that since they have operated as thugs since day #1 , selling an OS (DOS) that they did not yet have the rights to , putting competitors such as DRDOS out of business by stealing their code and incorporating it into theirs... and lets set our wayback machines to 1993/4 or so when IBM outsourced the OS2 development to MS and they stole all the good IBM work and delayed the release or Warp until after they had finished 95 and locked up all the OEM’s ... F’Em...
In truth I think DEC knew from the start that M$ was poaching their design but chose not to do anything about it. By that time DEC had the Unix bug and was pretty much ignoring their VMS base anyway.
Just so that I’m clear ,, stealing from MS isn’t really possible when talking of operating systems... I would say it’s a moral imperative that the beast be starved.
If Microsoft made the source code for Windows public then HP (which bought Compaq, which bought DEC) would finally be able to prove Microsoft plagiarized the VMS kernel.
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If that’s all it needs then HP needs to contact me ... I was thoroughly involved in the very similar case of NCR/Comten (ex-Bell Labs) theft of IBM’s VTAM that NCR could never quite get right on their boxes (memory leaks) ,, they were so stupid that they even left in the comments from the original IBM code...