Microsoft makes 86-DOS 1.00 open source on its 45th birthday

History painstakingly preserved.

Microsoft releases the earliest DOS source code ever discovered as open source

Microsoft has officially released another significant piece of DOS history. The "Paterson Listings" include the earliest ...

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...
Law

Consider the Source: Using and Protecting Source Code in Patent Litigation

Patent infringement cases involving electrical or computer technology often require companies to divulge one of their most closely guarded valuables: the computer source code that makes their products ...