Re: Richard Stallman as Seen via the BBS Scene
John Levine <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:26:20 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Vir Campestris <[email protected]>: >On 16/02/2023 02:33, John Levine wrote: >> As anyone familiar >> with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to >> copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business did >> just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. > >Back in those days there was no portable software. Um, the entire point of COBOL was to be portable, and people were certainly moving Fortran programs from one kind of machine to another by 1960. You might want to brush up on your history. Hint: the CO stands for COmmon. -- Regards, John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly