I am not so certain that it would have made much difference. Microsoft would still have produced both BASIC and Windows, and we may have had the exact same evol

I am not so certain that it would have made much difference. Microsoft would still have produced both BASIC and Windows, and we may have had the exact same evolution anyway. DigitalResearch's GEM was mired in legal red tape preventing from much evolution. Also, MSDOS is opensource now. https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/?key=microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-ms-dos-early-sour...