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Microsoft Paternity Case Settled
Many readers have written to tell us that last week, a Judge dismissed the defamation law suit brought by Tim Paterson, who sold a computer operating system to Microsoft in 1980, against journalist and author Sir Harold Evans and his publisher Little Brown. The software became the basis of Microsoft's MS-DOS monopoly, and the basis of its dominance of the PC industry."
So, wait, someone actually wants to claim credit for being the man behind MS-DOS?
In other news, No One Admits To Singing, Writing, Producing Nation's No. 1 Song.
More Twoson than Cupertino
"DO NOT WANT!"
- Tux
"if there's even dialup internet access."
That's not exactly superior engineering is it?
Tim Paterson will have to pay to put Windows through college.
Why is America so ridiculously obsessed with trials, laws, and all that crap they love such as patents or imaginary property, to the point of turning so-called justice into an industry of fat, vicious thugs who make up anything to sue for a living, exploit ludicrous legal loopholes, or live on patents?
Because it was better than the previous option, where instead of rule of law we had rule of the retarded hemophiliacs that Europe choose to call "Aristocrats".
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Sounds like he was suing because they took away his fame.
But that would defameation, not defamation.
Although since we are talking about DOS, perhaps deinfameation would have been more accurate.
And judging by your regular postings you feel quite at home here
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
And $50K ought to be enough for anybody.
> Grammar being the first?
Gramps losing his wife isn't all that uncommon...