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Gates pretended he had an OS ready to go. False. Gates made it quite clear that Microsoft made comilers and didn't have an OS. He sent IBM to Gary Kildall at
by edw519 17y ago
Gates pretended he had an OS ready to go.
False. Gates made it quite clear that Microsoft made comilers and didn't have an OS. He sent IBM to Gary Kildall at Digital Research because they had CP/M. When that didn't work out, IBM came back to Microsoft and that's when Paul Allen purchased Seattle DOS for $50K. Nobody "tricked" IBM.
There's a fundamental difference between putting on your best face (nice website, big company image) and intentionally deceiving (putting "Re:" in an email subject line.) If you can't tell the difference, remind me never to conduct business with you.
- petercooper 17y agoYou're right on the OS/Gates thing. I'll switch out "OS" for "BASIC." If you can't tell the difference, remind me never to conduct business with you. Thankfully it's possible to elucidate both a point of view without agreeing with it and an action without doing it :-)
- akd 17y agoRe: actually stands for "regarding," not "reply," so the OP could claim to be within the letter of ethical bounds, if not the spirit :)