NYT on the Theft of Altair BASIC

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_siren.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed Sep 20 11:37:12 2000

> Well, there hasn't been a real good book on the early days of Microsoft,
> the Harvard incident, MS's buy and kill method of eliminating
> competition and inovation, etc.

Harvard appears to have sealed or destroyed any record of what occurred
when B.G. "dropped out" as part of whatever agreement was reached. Nobody
who really knows the details is saying much of anything. No one in the
press appears to even consider that Bill didn't really "drop out" voluntarily.
If they did consider it, their editor would probably kill it.

> Seems like no one has the info or guts for the tell all book.

Either that or they don't have the ability to convince a publisher that
it's a good idea to annoy someone who could buy them with pocket change.

Eric
Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 11:37:12 BST