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On a side note, early Microsoft’s business strategy seems to be licensing half-baked software written by independent programmers and then making a product out o
by drno123 4y ago
On a side note, early Microsoft’s business strategy seems to be licensing half-baked software written by independent programmers and then making a product out of it.
- II2II 4y agoTo my knowledge, Applesoft BASIC would have been written by Microsoft with some modifications done by Apple. On top of that, it is likely that TASC made calls directly to the BASIC ROM. Reimplementing bits of BASIC would have used already scarce RAM. Licensing probably made the most sense in this case since little (if any) of the original BASIC code would have been of value and it offered the developer the opportunity to sell their software without publishing it themselves or maintaining the software if they found someone to publish it.
- chiph 4y agoThey did that for years, just not as much these days. Visual Basic was an outside product/demo developed by Alan Cooper. The infamous Visual Source Safe [0] was originally sold by One Tree Software in Raleigh (the word "Visual" was added by Microsoft) [0] Microsoft's own source control product that it replaced was Microsoft Delta. Believe it or not, Source Safe was a major improvement over Delta.