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MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court
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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I sumbited this sotry in the morning and was rejected. It was fucking better written then this. This news item is bullshit. The suit is over a chapter in the book not about deciding the parentage of MS-DOS. And it's not about MS-DOS either. Paterson is sick of HIM getting accused of ripping off.
AND TEH BOOK IS FUCKING CALLED 'THEY BUILT AMERICA'.
WINDOWS!!! Don't believe microsoft's lies, Windows XP is still on top of DOS, as is every other god damn iteration of windows INCLUDING the upcoming Longhorn! Saying that "DOS is no longer there" is as stupid as saying you can replace all of your utilities, your API's and your shell with brand new code and expect your programs to work.