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CNET News.com: Gates’s DOS worries found in 1989 email

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 31, 1999

Thanks to Marty for this
link.

“Our DOS gold mine is shrinking and our costs are
soaring–primarily due to low prices, IBM share, and DR-DOS,” a
competing product, Gates wrote…”

“Caldera is citing Gates’ memo and other Microsoft documents to
support its claim that the company engaged in illegal predatory
business practices. “This is just a very small snippet of the
evidence we have,” Bryan Sparks, Caldera’s chief executive,
said.”

“In one 1990 internal report, for instance, Microsoft discussed
plans to “block out” DR-DOS by pushing one computer equipment
manufacturer, Hyundai Electronics, to sign a license that required
it to pay a license fee for every machine it shipped, regardless of
whether the computers ran on Microsoft products.”

Complete
story
.

Web Webster

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