[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay rolyalties

[Felix Tilley]

Funny.  Remember how MS got started?  Before DOS, their main business 
was modifying and copyrighting open source software, mainly BASIC 
interpreters.

In the early 1980s, IBM had people who could create DOS-like operating 
systems.  In fact, in the 1960s IBM had a mainframe O/S called DOS.  
There was no reason for IBM  to go to MS.

Felix