begin  quoting Alan as of Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:05:07PM -0700:
[snip]
> MITS 4K BASIC, Microsoft's first product was hand-coded by Paul, Bill 
> and Monte Davidoff.
> So one could say Microsoft's historical roots were creating pretty 
> impressive software, and they ...umm...deviated a bit from there..

Wasn't that written with stolen time on the University's computers,
contrary to the University's "we own everything anyone writes on
our machines" policy?

Amazing that computer-time used to be a scarce and expensive
resource, innit?

-Stewart "It takes a thief to whine about pirates" Stremler

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