[ale] [WAY OT]Reverse Engineering MS Visual Basic Applications

[ChangingLINKS.com]

Sure. 
Geoffrey knows that information can be found simply by googling "Bill Gates."

"In 1973, .... While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming 
language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. . . . .Gates' 
foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the 
success of Microsoft and the software industry."

I am disappointed that Geoffrey feels that I "just troll" and am equally 
disappointed that it is so easy to piss off certain people in the Linux 
community by simply mentioning "Bill Gates."

My opinion is that most programming is not that creative. Instead it is the 
idea that requires the programming that is creative. Moreover, it is my 
opinion that if programmers were really creative - they would have the vision 
to program something that would bring them financial freedom instead of 
wasting energy engaging in classism and having unrestrained envy and jealousy 
- while begging the trully creative visionary entreprenuers for jobs.

Geoffrey goes on pontificating (as if we don't already know he believes Bill 
Gates is the sole cause for all evil in the world //briefly checking the 
archives to see if he blames evil on anything else) and he crosses the line 
with a personal attack. 

Trolling includes attacking someone personally, Geoffrey. Simply having a 
opinion other than "US programmers are sooo creative and worth 3 times the 
pay and should (by default) have intellectual property rights to something 
they were instructed to write" is *not.*

Having and voicing an opinion that most CONTRACT programming is SIMILAR to 
taking dictation, or building a special (trademarked and probably patented) 
hamburger in a special way, or writing a story where the characters, plot and 
climax are already laid out does not rise to the level of trolling.

I find it ironic that you would call someone a troll because they don't share 
a popular opinion. Sounds like you are trying to have a monopoly on opinions. 

Moreover, the "wasting bandwidth" argument has been deemed moot.

//I still love and admire and accept Geoffrey for all that I know of him.
//Expecting someone to flame me or point out misspellings or bad grammer.
-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com



On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:33, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> I think that writing the first "4K Basic interpreter" which ran on the
> Intel 8086 chip back in 1975 (Altair microcomputer
> loaded via paper tape from an ASR-33 Teletype) qualifies as being both
> visionary and "very creative".
> Don't get personal with your antipathy for Bill Gates ... just keep
> working to make Linux the world's standard OS.
>
> > ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> >> Ah, alas I am seeing more and more support for Jason Day's opinion
> >> that programmers a 'very creative' (and why the majority of the
> >> programmers on this list would say that Bill Gates was not creative).
> >
> > You still have not answered my post.  What creative programming has
> > Bill Gates done?  You have no idea do you?  Because it was no more
> > then a troll right?
> >
> > I have to tell you Drew, I'm quite disappointed in you.  I really
> > thought better, but it appears that you do in fact enjoy causing
> > disruption on this list and creating a waste of bandwidth.
>
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