On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:01 PM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I nominate Altair BASIC! ;-)
http://altairbasic.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
Interesting how legal jargon influenced its development. Harvard at the time, did not have a written policy regarding authorized use of computers for commercial purposes. They have since written one. https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/its/its-policies/usage-policy This gives them a measure of control over the purpose of the academic research tools and the environment Harvard provides and protects the resultant research from unauthorized commercial explotation. You'd think Harvard Law school would have understood law at the time. There is a necessary legal implication when drafting policy, like trespass to private property. If the intent is to restrict use of private facilities, then that activity which is not specifically listed cannot be restricted under those writings. When MS and MITS went to arbitration over who owned the rights to BASIC under the purchase agreement MITS lost for not using their "best efforts" to market the product This situation resulted from someone having recovered the BASIC punch tape from Gates presentation at the Homebrew hobbyists convention. They did this because they were to have a BASIC code as part of the package they purchased and felt they had the rights to the property. Gates had written his famous inflamitory open letter to hobbyists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists Losing control of that tape was probably the first identifiable securtity flaw in an M$ product. Gates set the tone of his companies response mechanisim in that letter and the rest is history. Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot calling the kettle black," all things considered.
On 2019-08-13 10:17 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
This is not a place of honour:.
https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic
Go do some damage!
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