Comment on Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gary Kildall was so depressed he committed suicide, because Bill Gates (Microsoft) stole his OS and used it and his mothers position in IBM to undercut him, and he couldn’t do anything about it.
scorpious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wat
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gary Kildall’s lawyer later stated Gary Kildall lacked the tenacity Bill Gates had, because he didn’t sue based on same lawyers legal advice, that software probably wasn’t legally protected by copyright.
If you don’t know, QDOS was copied from CP/M, and Microsoft bought QDOS and relabeled it MS-DOS, and sold it to IBM as PC-DOS. Main difference being that Microsoft removed the few safety features that were present in CP/M, causing decades of nightmares with bad security and viruses.
scorpious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But the suicide part … that confirmed as well?
Honestly don’t know, just surprised to read that.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No it’s not, I may remember that part wrong, it was speculated to be homicide, but his wife told he was very depressed about Microsoft using his own OS to win the contract with IBM.