* On 2012 09 Jun 01:15 -0500, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > After all this time, he still doesn't understand that the free/open source > > software movement works for itself. > > He has a bit of an axe to grind. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
I doubt he will ever get over it. Note the portion where his commercial enterprise was initially done on a PDP-10 provided by the US DOD--US taxpayer funded--for "free". What he stole, computer time, was of no consequence, apparently. The guy has lived the double standard all his life. Perhaps MSFT should go back to pricing software on the level of the initial Altair BASIC which, per the article, was priced at $500! That's 1975 dollars and works out to $2138.34 in 2012 (per US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Then you could buy the entire Altair package including BASIC for just $995. Heh! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120609130843.ga5...@n0nb.us
