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you mean the good ole days when Microsoft paid 50k for quickdos before making billions from it?
by unishark 6y ago
you mean the good ole days when Microsoft paid 50k for quickdos before making billions from it?
- sgift 6y agoThat's 50k more than most open source projects make, also: No one forced the owners of qdos to give Microsoft that license for 50k. Sellers remorse is a thing, but I'm not sure why we should feel sorry for them.
- OldHand2018 6y agoAs a really fun thought experiment, imagine that they took the $50,000 and put it into 30-year US Treasury bonds in 1981 and sold them in 1986 to buy Microsoft at the IPO. It would be worth about $212 million today. And that ignores dividends.
- austincheney 6y agoBut MS hired Tim Patterson and gave him equity. How is that not fair?