[citation][nom]jhaytol[/nom]So they're going to find the next guy to have his momma get a meeting with IBM, get the deal, steal someone else's code, rename it as their own and sell it in order to establish a useless monopolist. Honey Boo Boo sounds more thrilling[/citation]
Yea, the purchase of QDOS wasn't exactly completely out in the open but MS didn't steal code. QDOS was different enough from CP/M to not be stealing code and then MS turned around and licensed MS-DOS (renamed QDOS since they now owned it) to IBM. If MS didn't do it IBM would have found another OS and more than likely the same thing would happen and you would act the same way except you would hate a different company for no reason. As for his mother getting him a meeting with IBM well, who cares how you get the meeting as long as you get it there are many people who get meeting based on their friends yet many people think it is fine yet your mother doing the same is suddenly bad?
Stop the irrational hate and look at what MS has actually done, can you imagine an entire industry based on closed systems that are incompatible with each other? MS might not have been the most noble company at all times but they did help standardize and create what we use today.