Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : MRO
Date : Wed May 18 2022 22:59:13

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Moondog to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 10:10 pm

 >
 >  > His wife didn't want to sign the standard NDA without her husband.
 >
 >  > she
 >  > shou ibm would have just bought them out.  i'm not sure if that's what
 >  > they wante
 >
 >
 > Correct.  Folklore is he picked that day to go out flying his plane.
 >
 >
 > he had
 > flown to meet a customer earlier and met with IBM later.  Part of the NDA
 > back then included disavowment of any meetings or deals.  Gates could move
 > faster and sweetened the deal with undercutting DRI's pricing because he had
 > previously worked on creating IBM's BIOS and overheard things involved in
 > the next step of development.

either way you could call them stupid for not knowing about the NDA.  but like
i said ibm wanted to buy them out, not license, so they DR would have said no anyways.

he was a successful man and enjoyed life.  but he was an alcoholic.
atleast he's not a pedophile like bill gates


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