Microsoft bought DOS for mere $50000 #shorts

Microsoft in the early 1980s was struggling to close a deal with IBM, which required them to provide a fully functional Operating System. Microsoft had application software back then, but had never worked on creating an operating system. Paul Allen (one of the co-founder of Microsoft) had a friend named Tim Paterson who used to work at Seattle Computer Products. Paterson had come up with an operating system dubbed as QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating system.

Paterson’s firm was struggling to make ends meet, so Paul Allen negotiated and bought Paterson’s software outright without telling him why and who they were going to further license it.

Patterson was paid a mere 50 thousand dollars for a software that eventually ended up dominating the software industry for more than three decades.
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