https://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-the-devil/
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0707/6001336a.html
Why don’t you try dealing in reality and facts. Do you just make this stuff up on the fly?
The contract that Bill Gates had was to get the system to work on their machine. That was a detail it wasn't Bill Gates software. The contract for Bill gates to take the software that wasn't his should've been illegal.
Latter he did sell his software to Gates but at the time he had no rights to it.