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[News] [Rival] Fake Inventors and Sloppy Journalists

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Fake Inventors and Sloppy Journalists
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:56:46 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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MS-DOS paternity suit settled

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| The story of how Bill Gates came to acquire an operating system is well 
| known.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| The PC world might have looked very different today had Kildall's Digital 
| Research prevailed as the operating system of choice for personal computers. 
| DRI offered manufacturers the same low-cost licensing model which Bill Gates 
| is today credited with inventing by sloppy journalists - only with far 
| superior technology.     
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/30/msdos_paternity_suit_resolved/

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