MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 7, 2012 @12:49AM from the sorry-to-disappoint-you dept.

theodp writes "Challenging earlier assertions that Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall, a forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum concludes that the landmark MS-DOS operating system which Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM was an original piece of work, not stolen goods. Using his company's CodeSuite forensic software, Bob Zeidman said he found no evidence that QDOS or MS-DOS was copied from or was a derivative of Gary Kildall's CP/M. So, what do you think of Microsoft expert witness (pdf) Zeidman's "if-the-codebase-doesn't-fit-you-must-acquit" arguments?"

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Darth Vader by Blaskowicz · 2012-08-07 00:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

geekwire.com's algorithm served me an article about Darth Vader as an amazing project manager, that is quite telling!
Vader kicks ass, and didn't need to steal software projects or other works when he could implement things himself. Still evil, though.