Stop typing M$ -- it's not as funny or clever as you think it is

[alephnull]

WereKitten said:

alephnull said:
I should also point out that Altair BASIC was at the center of the debate of whether or not software could be charged for thanks to that incident with that hobbyist group. The answer at the time was non-obvious. The laws in which software was made to be property had not yet been passed and if you think about it for a bit, this amounts to someone owning all rights to the use of a number.

I'm glad that's all in the past now, and the whole issue has been cleanly settled :)

For most people it is -- at least for the moment.

I will even admit to adding non-free packages to my Debian GNU-Linux install :P