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> On Jan 15, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>=20
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse.  They would approach a sm=
all company: =E2=80=9CWe like your product/technology, we think we are inter=
ested in buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is modul=
ar/well-documented/etc.=E2=80=9D  Then, after looking over the code: =E2=80=9C=
Well, it actually doesn=E2=80=99t fit our plans.  Sorry.=E2=80=9D  Six month=
s or so later, essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$soft pro=
duct.
>=20
> More out of curiosity than anything else, do you have a source?

"Startup" by Jerry Kaplan was about an early PDA in the late 1980's that got=
 reviewed and later copied by Microsoft. Great book about Silicon Valley pro=
duct development =20

Chris R.=