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To: Canard who wrote (14063)	9/30/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

>>Really - can you name at least 4? Ashton-Tate, Lotus, WordPerfect, WordStar, Apple, IBM, Novell, Oracle...

To: Canard who wrote (14063)	9/30/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Respond to of 27307

Visicalc, 1-2-3, CP/M (which Gates copied and called DOS), WordPerfect, IBM, Apple, Unix, WordStar, and every budding engineer sitting in their basement with a bunch of IBM parts was a possible threat of new innovation. Microsoft copies ideas, they don't create them. Windows is the improvement of the Mac OS, DOS improved CP/M, Word copied WordPerfect, Excel copied Visicalc/1-2-3, Explorer copied Navigator/Mosaic. Microsoft's competition was/is anyone who did/does software.