[GTALUG] legal history of university AUPs, was Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread D. Joe via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 08:49:44AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:01 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > I nominate Altair BASIC!  ;-) > > http://altairbasic.org/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC  > > > Interesting how legal jargon influ

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread William Porquet via talk
I've come to the realization that, in this day and age of hypervisors and virutalization, Windows has become a rather complex and somewhat buggy service that runs under Linux. Or is has for me, anyway. My CDN$0.02. William On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 12:31, Russell Reiter wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 11:48 AM William Porquet via talk wrote: > "It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real > hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." - > anonymous hacker > > Still true today? :-) > I'd say so, considering the corporation w

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread William Porquet via talk
"It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." - anonymous hacker Still true today? :-) On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 11:43, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, > wrote: > > On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > > situation, after Gates

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for > > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot call

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:01 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > I nominate Altair BASIC! ;-) > > http://altairbasic.org/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC > Interesting how legal jargon influenced its development. Harvard at the time, did not have a written policy regarding authorized u

[GTALUG] Micro development Was: Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread mwilson--- via talk
On Sun, August 25, 2019 11:19 pm, William Park via talk wrote > At work, I once tried to use TI micro board (launchpad or something), > and to program that, I have to download their IDE and edit through that, > because only it knows which headers and libraries to pull in. Anything > I do or learn

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot calling the kettle black,"  > all things considered. Of course, we can't