08-24-2004, 10:03 AM
Actually Gates bought the DOS program for around $1500 and then offered it for sale to IBM. They refused thinking they could do it better, Gates then sold licensing agreements and the rest is history. It got so bad for IBM that they had Microsoft write the operating system OS2 Warp for their machines while MS was writing Windows 3.1. So Gates never actually stole anything from anyone unless you consider what he did to Steve Jobs at Apple.