Lpc2000

derbaier wrote:

>--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Tom Walsh <tom@o...> wrote:
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>>You don't know your history!  There was a famous article which Bill 
>>Gates wrote in DDJ (Doctor Dobbs Journal) back around 1978, in which he 
>>lambasted people who were using his 4K Basic without paying for it.  
>>Bill Gates was one of the early people who started the, then, radical 
>>idea of paying for software.  Prior to that, we gave each other source 
>>code and helped each other out with their projects as it was fun to
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>do.  
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>>Apparently you've never heard of FidoNet?
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>>TomW
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>Cool, when you can't think of anything else you can always start with
>an insult to make your logic stronger.
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>Basic was NOT the IP theft that I was refering to, and that tangent
>thread is irrelevant to the thread subject, so I'll stop right here.
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Oh, we call that "Trolling". 



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