Take a history lessons about Bill.
Every body knows he steals it. Even hacktivists say so.
Everyone except the guy who wrote it. He freely sold it to MS for $25000 and then got a bonus of $50000 when joined Microsoft as an employee.
Superb so even if this us true instead of earning millions he get 75k. Great for him.
Correct. Tim Paterson was delighted to get the money. Do remember that DOS was the last resort and that IBM really really wanted the CPM deal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/MIts worth mention that this was the first of 3 deals for Paterson - all with MS - and he was a multimillionaire as a result.