[ale] [WAY OT]Reverse Engineering MS Visual Basic Applications

[Jason Day]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:04:14AM +0000, Irv wrote:
> You are probably right (IANAL), but think about this:
> I write software. Consider, if you will, what will happen if I try to 
> write software for company A, for which I will charge $10,000 and 
> then, because I own the copyright, I then advertise the same software
> for sale to company A's competitors for, say $500 a pop. 

This is almost exactly what Microsoft did with MS-DOS when they sold it
to IBM for use in IBM's new PC line.  Microsoft retained the right to
resell DOS however they chose, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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