Gary H wrote:

JAD wrote:

don't feel left out, maybe some bum will give you a card. Rich G are you
listening?
Your 'opinion spouts as envy. Why do you think its bowing , worshiping
when
someone takes the opposite side and defends someone who isn't around to
defend himself? Your opinion is based on 'innuendo and is not thought out
very well. And bashing someone without the facts straight is ....well its
nonsense.


Ah well it's criticism based on many writings and rulings (I suppose) by
"experts". He's ended up in court in the US (antitrust, guilty) and in
Europe (antitrust, guilty) fined 32 million by South Korea's FTC (Fair
Trade Commission, guilty)

Courts and Judges are positively clueless about the software world and to
call them 'experts' is absurd.

Yeah, self made man, always by the book, never stiffed anyone.

Typical US mentality. Money first then trickle down to all the other
mundane stuff kicking and screaming all the way. Gimme a break.

By your standards it must be 'typical non US mentality' to be class
prejudiced and irrationally vindictive then.

Willey was lucky (and smart). He grabbed CP/M

Utter B.S. He didn't 'grab CPM'. He made an O.S. that did similar
functions, just like any O.S. would have to do and just as CPM copied the
functionality of Dec RT-11, in their case right down to calling pip pip.

before the market
conditions were what they are today.

You want to know what the real 'secret' of his early success was? IBM
contacted DR for CPM but they wanted too much money up front for it while
Microsoft was willing to practically give DOS away and bet on the future
come when, they rightly predicted, IBM would dominate the market.

CPM had first shot at it and the preferred position but blew it. Who knows,
maybe they lost by thinking like you do intending to 'kick some rich
******* ass' and make IBM pay through the nose for it. Nah, they were American.

had he pulled something like that
in recent times, he'd have been in a courtroom so fast he woulda been
sucked out of his socks.

More clueless B.S.