MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes

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Challenging earlier assertions that Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall (http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/19/1215216/the-man-who-could-have-been-bill-gates), a forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum concludes that the landmark MS-DOS operating system which Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM was an original piece of work (http://www.geekwire.com/2012/csi-redmond-forensic-analysis-finds-msdos-stolen/), not stolen goods. Using his company's CodeSuite forensic software, Bob Zeidman said hefound no evidence (http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-heart-of-dos/0) that QDOS or MS-DOS was copied from or was a derivative of Gary Kildall's CP/M. So, what do you think ofMicrosoft expert witness (http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flsdce/1:2010cv24063/368653/173/0.pdf?ts=1312892914) (pdf) Zeidman's "if-the-codebase-doesn't-fit-you-must-acquit" arguments?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/1149258/ms-dos-not-stolen-new-forensic-analysis-concludes