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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by rbanffy on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @03:33PM (#1695558)
Microsoft was a strong proponent of COTS only after the DOS deal with IBM. Before that they did lots of embedded languages for computer manufacturers. IIRC, I have used only Microsoft versions of BASIC in my early career.

They always had a strong stance against piracy, something that's understandable even when you consider they had limited exposure to it in those early days because of their OEM deals with computer makers.

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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by stan_rogers on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:31AM (#1697486)
That anti-piracy stance goes back to Micro Soft BASIC for the Altair in 1976: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
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