Altair MBL source

I wrote: Damond wrote: Sure. But it's usually easy to do some research with Google to find out what other people think of it. Or just to try it out. When was the last time Microsoft offered to let you just try out a copy of Exchange Server or SQL Server for a while before you decide that you (don't) want to use it? Sturgeon's law is that ninety percent of everything is crap. I would amend that to say that the 90% is a lower bound. For some things, the percentage is much higher. MS software is in that category. At best, it's mediocre. But usually it's worse. The last products that they made that I actually considered "good" were MACRO-80, FORTRAN-80, LINK-80, and MBASIC. Now all they care about is adding features, because that's what drives sales. Bill Gates has publicly stated in an interview that they care more about features than fixing bugs. I didn't find the statement to be the least bit surprising, but rather the fact that he was willing to state it publicly. For the past two years they've claimed that their focus is on security, yet what has come out of Redmond in that time shows little or no sign of better security, and still has tons of new features. Apparently paying lip service to people's concerns over security also must help sales. Eric