[ale] FSF launches anti-Windows 7 assault

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 16:47:06 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> In the early days of Apple I avoided it in favor of DOS because DOS
> would run on multiple platforms so Apple was viewed as the "proprietary"
> evil.

In the early days, I liked apple because it came with source code and
a debugger so you could look at what it was doing.  I had to run a
disassembler on my TRS-80's ROM to get that kind of access.

Of course, this was the Apple II.  I don't think the Mac ever released source.

Michael


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