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Originally Posted by Quoth
There was no court case about that specific issue. Either Gary Kiddal lost interest, or something else. IBM did try to buy CP/M 86 but he didn't engage. ...
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I've read that IBM convinced Gary Kildall to not press forward with his lawsuit against Seattle Computer and/or Microsoft because IBM would also supply CP/M 86 with their PCs (along with MS-DOS). And they did, sort of, for a premium price. Apparently Gary Kildall hadn't been happy with IBM's terms and IBM wasn't happy with him because he stood them up. When Bill Gates offered them an OS (that he didn't even own yet) they were happy they could avoid Gary Kildall.
I don't know how much of this is myth and how much is fact, but I can believe IBM was used to doing things on their own terms and probably weren't happy with Digital Research's contract negotiations.