You have to go back what 30 years to try to prove your point?? LOL thats just funny. Why not give an example in this millennia??
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer. QDos did come from CP/M but it was different enough to be considered legal. MS did buy the rights to QDos for something like $50,000.
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