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Re: Real-life biz experience



Title: RE: [PEN-L] Real-life biz experience

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> yes, but Gates stole he code from people who were small.

who what it who said "intellectual property is theft"?

I didn't know that Gates "stole the code." In the case of MS-DOS, he _purchased_ a version of the previously popular operating system (CP-M) that someone had upgraded to work with 16 bits. In other cases, he used shady business practices (e.g., against Netscape) and used the power of big biz to make it bigger.  But did he literally steal the code?

inquiring minds want to know.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine



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