Microsoft slapped with $388 million patent verd

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MikeB said:

vess13 said:
in that case, why weren't they sued when the copied Xerox's Grafical Interface?

Worse yet, I find it amazing MSDOS was legal at all. It was a direct source code rip off of CP/M (MSDOS at the time was called Quick and Dirty OS). Only more limited and handicapped than CP/M was at the time.

Without MSDOS the industry could have looked a lot different than it is today.

 

Yeah... we'd be using PowerPC CPUs and some form of Unix.