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7/29/85: Bill Gates to John Sculley -- License the Mac OS! In this memo Gates outlines a business plan for the Mac OS that eventually became the plan for Windows.

How this memo came to be on Scripting News... I read the memo in Jim Carlton's Apple book. I heard it was going to appear in the current issue of Wired, print only. I wanted it to be on the web. I asked for the memo. Microsoft sent it to me.

DaveNet: "Hope That Clears It Up".

SunWorld has a wide-ranging, very interesting interview from August, with Larry Wall, the creator of PERL, and Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Associates.

News.com: Microsoft woos wary venture capitalists.

"Mail Starting 10/24/97".

      

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