04-22-2004, 09:23 PM
Why is Microsoft so wierd about old software anyway? I know I'm kind of strange about liking old programming languages so much, but I'd actually be willing to buy some of this stuff from Microsoft if they would sell it. What are the alternatives they give you if you are willing to buy something but they won't sell it?
As I'm sure you all know you can go to almost any bookstore and buy a how to program book that probably will have a disk or CD in the back with some old programming software on it with which one can get started programming perfectly fine. I'm sure the book publisher has to pay Microsoft or Borland or whomever as the case may be something for the learning edition of some old VB or C++ software.
If they would sell QuickBasic 4.5 for twenty bucks or VBDOS Professional for Fourty bucks it seems to me it would be pure profit. I just don't understand!
As I'm sure you all know you can go to almost any bookstore and buy a how to program book that probably will have a disk or CD in the back with some old programming software on it with which one can get started programming perfectly fine. I'm sure the book publisher has to pay Microsoft or Borland or whomever as the case may be something for the learning edition of some old VB or C++ software.
If they would sell QuickBasic 4.5 for twenty bucks or VBDOS Professional for Fourty bucks it seems to me it would be pure profit. I just don't understand!
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