[GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

[William Porquet]

I've come to the realization that, in this day and age of hypervisors and
virutalization, Windows has become a rather complex and somewhat buggy
service that runs under Linux. Or is has for me, anyway.

My CDN$0.02.

William

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 12:31, Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 11:48 AM William Porquet via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> "It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real
>> hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." -
>> anonymous hacker
>>
>> Still true today? :-)
>>
>
> I'd say so, considering the corporation which basically said Linux was not
> secure, in order to keep their own market dominance, has now embraced Linux
> with its own WSL.
>
> Perhaps the gods have their own ways of making things useful.
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 11:43, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, <talk at gtalug.org
>>> > <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
>>> >     > 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.
>>> >
>>> >     Of course, we can't forget BG was a dumpster diver, looking for
>>> >     source code.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Sssh, you,re leaking M$ trade secrets. :-o
>>> >
>>>
>>> It's not a secret to anyone who's used Windows.  ;-)
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>> "I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them." (Isaac Asimov)
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William Porquet, M.A. ⁂ mailto:william at 2038.org ⁂ http://www.2038.org/
"I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them." (Isaac Asimov)
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