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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 07:23 PM EDT |
"MS wasn't always bad, though they did get a lot of their initial
code through dumpster diving - theft. Which is probably why
they're so sensitive to the issue now. Takes a thief to accuse
everyone else of being a thief at that level."
Bill Gates open letter to hobbyists, calling them all thieves was
in early 1976.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- ROFL - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 12:46 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 11:08 AM EDT |
Well, MicroSoft got it's start using time on a Harvard-
managed DARPA-owned PDP 10. As Paul Allen worked on this
machine and was not even a student at the time, the company
has been shady pretty much from day one.
I also remember the macro-assembler (indeed I wrote a link-
locate-loader for MS OMF files with special "well-known"
entry points and calls, fun given the bit-oriented alignment
of that OMF), but just because a company (or person) does
something good, it doesn't mean that company (or person) is
a "good guy". Even the worst of us can sometimes do
something good.
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| Authored by: Tyro on Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
I considered "Lifeboat C" to be a quite reasonable assembler for CP/M.
(It wasn't a good C compiler, but it came with a decent assembler, it
translated the subset of C that it could handle into assembler...but you could
code directly in assembler if you preferred.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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