[Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....

[peter gerba]

It's also worth mention that Bill Gates father is among the best
Intellectual Property attorneys in the country.  Bill didn't have the legal
bill when beginning his business that many start-ups face.  Microsoft like
Dolby Labs etc. is all about Intellectual Property.


Pete kn6bi

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That's the story I remember. Gates has been great at acquiring other peoples
projects and turning them into gold..I'm not sure he's ever actually written
a line of code!

Doug
W6JD

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From: Brian Lloyd <brian-wb6rqn at lloyd.com>

>
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Fred (FL) wrote:
>
> > And Bill Gates empire was launched, and IBM got
> > its first DOS contract from Gates - and IBM's PC was
> > launched.
>
> The way I remember it, IBM decided they wanted a version of CP/M for
> their new Intel 8086-based system and went to Digital Research.
> Somehow the folks at DR managed to really annoy the folks from IBM.
> (I heard it that Gary Kildall's wife wouldn't deal with them because
> Gary was out-of-town.) So IBM turned to the small company that was
> supposed to provide the BASIC interpreter for the new "PC": Microsoft.
>
> Bill Gates of Microsoft assured IBM that Microsoft had a replacement
> for CP/M-86 even though they really didn't. (Ah, vapor-ware has been
> with us for a LONG time.) Microsoft then quickly purchased the rights
> to a CP/M lookalike called QDOS. That became IBM's PC-DOS which
> Microsoft then renamed MS-DOS. The rest is history.
>
> 73 de Brian, WB6RQN
> Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
>
>
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