20 Sep
2000
20 Sep
'00
12:18 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Sep
2000 tim.mann(a)compaq.com wrote:
Wasn't there also an issue about Bill Gates & Friends having acquired
that code they based it on unethically as well? I seem to recall
having read something about that numerous places over a decade ago, or
has that little bit of history been rewritten?
It's more the point is that Gates and Co. used U.S. government and Harvard
University computers to develop their BASIC. If Harvard had done what it
was well within its rights to do and claimed ownership of the code or placed
it in the public domain, rather than just giving Gates the boot, the computing
world might be a somewhat different place.
Gates's entire career has been about theft. Seeing him complain about
someone stealing from him... The hipocracy is downright funny.
Eric