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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Did Apple even have a shot at getting the IBM operating system contract that launched Microsoft into the computing stratosphere?
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Uh, they had an even better deal offered to them:
Bill Gates himself suggested to Sculley that they License MacOS and (later) NuBus to Compaq and HP and others. He even did all the footwork; all that Apple had to do was set the terms and they would've been in business.
(This was around the time IBM was going all proprietary with the PS/2 line.)
http://www.macobserver.com/columns/t...20040630.shtml
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...in 1985 that Bill Gates, the very same Bill Gates that heads Microsoft, tried to get Apple to license the Mac OS to third party vendors. Not only did he try to get Apple to do so, he actually went out and lined up prospective licensees for Apple, going directly to the head of some of the biggest players in the computing industry at the time. When initially ignored by Apple CEO John Sculley, Mr. Gates continued his efforts to help Apple set his plan in motion by trying to keep communications open between the prospective parties.
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