On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 > > > > Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! > > > > and guess who started all this shite... > > > > no, take a wild guess... > > > > ok, here: > > > > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hobbyis > >ts.html > > > > :) > > Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the > language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a > genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It > also made a lot of money for him developing software for > programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 > desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. > -- cmg
I can't take this seriously. It was late '70s before Microsoft Basic was around, IIRC, and such 'hobbyist' machines as were around were not only expensive, but had the operating system embedded - and it was into the '80's before it became anything like standard. If you were not building your box - and how many were at that time? - why would you 'steal' the operating system? Anne
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