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Re: Money for this will be hard to get
said by bent  :I'm not so sure... who exactly did Google steal the search engine from? According to your link, Bill Gates stole DOS from no one. He paid the original creator a sum of money in exchange for the rights to the OS and then modified it as he saw fit. None of this is illegal, much less "stealing."
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clubs: | So because I paid you money for pirated software, that makes my copy legit? Don't think so. |
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1 edit | said by bent :So because I paid you money for pirated software, that makes my copy legit? Don't think so. Of course it doesn't. But Bill, nor the company from which he purchased QDOS, did not pirate anything.
Besides, quite a bit of popular open-source, zero cost software has been developed using the same methods that the company which made QDOS used. It may not have been pirated, but it was emulated quite well. 
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