Linux Hater's Blog (parody)

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
>> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Heh. The only real contribution to computing from Bill Gates and co was
>>     his BASIC software. The rest was all 'borrowed' and then there is all
>>     the negative contributions when they buy out competitors/others and then
>>     shut stuff down.
>>
>> Just in case it isn't widely known, BASIC was created at Dartmouth
>> College by then Math chair John Kemeny, assisted by Tom Kurtz, around
>> 1963.  It was not proprietary, so it was fine for Gates to re-implement
>> it, but Gates does not deserve credit for the language itself.  I'd call
>> it "borrowed" too.
>>
>
> Which was why I said 'BASIC software' and not just BASIC. An old timer
> tells me that it was really good and possibly one of the best but he
> still lays into Bill for 'stealing' C/PM and reckons the death of
> Kildall was fishy. He also said another CEO of a Microsoft competitor
> met an untimely death the same day Kildall die too...
>

That is extremely fishy.  Its the sort of bullcrap I'd expect big
corporations to pull in this day and age.

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