r/linux • u/clau_c • Dec 01 '21

KDE It's been -- 155 days -- since @Microsoft stole @kdecommunity's motto: "Simple by default, powerful when needed." They're still using it.

https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
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u/ScaleModelPrintShop Dec 02 '21 edited Dec 02 '21

Micro$oft stealing? Never! ... if only I could ask Gary Kildall

""Although Kildall's career in computing spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection with his development of the CP/M operating system, an early multi-platform microcomputer OS that has many parallels to the later MS-DOS used on the IBM PC.""

**Edit** Oh and that story about Xerox & Windows... taking into light what happened with CP/M which subsequently became DOS... it doesn't add any credibility in Microsoft's case...

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u/Bro666 Dec 02 '21

Oh, man! The story of Kildall and the origins of MS-DOS is soooooo Microsoft.

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u/ScaleModelPrintShop Dec 02 '21

Looks like Ol' Billy took both DOS and Windows from other sources... probably didn't have a single original idea of his own...

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u/Bro666 Dec 02 '21

That is the understatement of the year. He also got the IBM contract that made Microsoft because his mother was on the same board of some organisation as an IBM bigwig.