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MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dos-padres dept.

theodp writes "Might be more interesting as a Who's-My-Baby's-Daddy? segment on Maury, but a Court has been asked to decide the parentage of MS-DOS. Tim Paterson, whose operating system 86-DOS (aka QDOS) was sold to Microsoft in 1980, is suing author Harold Evans and Time Warner for defamation. In his book They Made America, Evans devoted a chapter to the late, great Gary Kildall, founder of Digital Research, describing Paterson's software as a 'rip-off' and 'a slapdash clone' of Kildall's CP/M."

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  1. "Baby's" isn't plural by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but I woundn't expect a homie fan to get that right either.

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    1. Re:"Baby's" isn't plural by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Um, it's not meant to be plural. It's talking about who 'pwns' the daddy, and in this case it's the baby's daddy. Nothing to do with plurals.

    2. Re:"Baby's" isn't plural by mickyflynn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I hear the next version of Java is going to have a genative case. Perhaps they'll learn it then?