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Fwd: [CSSAMSU] question about Pirates of Silicon Valley

interesting.

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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [CSSAMSU] question about Pirates of Silicon Valley
To: CSSAMSU@list.msu.edu


On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:04:57PM -0700, Wu Zhang wrote:

> Hi, folks,
>  I just watched the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley"; it is nice
> and I have two questions:
> 1. It says Bill Gates bought DOS from a guy at price of $50K;
> 2. Steven Jobs stole some technologies from XEROX.
>
> Are they real or just made up for fun?

I don't know of Gates bought DOS or just copied it.
My understanding was that it was originally copied from CPM
from Digital Research.

He also 'borrowed' the code for the Basic interpreter that was
his company's first product and that got it all started from a
Dartmouth grad student project, though I think in that case that
he had done some of the work on it.
Those details are far too long ago to remember clearly.

Apple definitely stole the Xerox point and click GUI technology
and then later tried to sue MS for trying to steal it from Apple.

So much fun,

////jerry

>
> Thanks,
>
> Wu
>
>
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