>> под себя ром-бейсиками ходили
> А кстати, хоть васик-то у них свой был аль как обычно?Ну... Во-первых, кто ж знает, что там было на самом деле. А интернеты полнятся самыми разноообразными, противорчивыми и преследующим срвершенно разные цели постами и перепевками по этому поводу. Более того, чем "дальше в лес", тем у мамоны больше возможностей переписать историю.
Вот, "пиратство" Гейтс "изобрёл"... BBC хвалит -- "враги" ругают и пр., и пр.
"1964 : BASIC computer programing language was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz (no, Bill Gates didn’t invent BASIC, sorry)."
"1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen "borrowed" computer time to produce a rip-off of the BASIC computer language (see 1964) for the MITS Altair. The product was announced and advertisements placed before work began to keep others from entering the market. It was expensive, released late, incomplete and riddled with bugs. [...] Bill Gates accused them all of “Software Piracy”. Thus we find the tone of Microsoft’s ethics, business practices, product quality, and attitude toward users (they’re all thieves) already fully formed in the first weeks of the company’s existence."
--http://techrights.org/2010/02/04/microsoft-perspective/
"[...] most software was ‘free’ at the time, when you bought the hardware you got a copy of the source as well. And it’s ironic he would later complain about piracy as the Altair Basic was based on Decus BASIC the source of which Gates had obtained from a DEC users group." --http://techrights.org/2010/02/04/bbc-net-propaganda/
...ну, и как же без почестей "гению". Всё-таки, он программист, хоть и не верится...
"[...] a Microsoft programmer, found an error in the flood fill routine of the MS-Basic interpreter, he exclaimed “Which moron wrote this brainless sh*t?” only to find out it was Gates himself who wrote the “brainless sh*t”. " --http://techrights.org/2010/01/25/bill-gates-history-tax-notes/
