Is this true? MS and PB?

chris319 · Post by **chris319** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:23 am

Joakim Christiansen wrote:I don't think Microsoft would be interested in a cross-platform compiler actually!

Quite the contrary. If M$ bought PureBasic it would be to kill it, just the same as when RealBasic/Geoff Perlman killed RapidQ when he bought it and gave the developer a job.

fsw · Post by **fsw** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:48 am

SFSxOI wrote:Is it true that MS is thinking about aquiring PB, or it just a rumor?

I dont have a link, I just happen to see it in passing in an IRC channel the other day...just one mention of it.

Yes it's true, Microsoft aquires PowerBasic

chris319 wrote:If M$ bought PureBasic it would be to kill it, just the same as when RealBasic/Geoff Perlman killed RapidQ when he bought it and gave the developer a job.

Yeah, remember that one

Found RapidQ in Fall 2000 and loved it

14 days later Geoff bought William and the development stopped

5 month later I found PureBasic and...

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:26 pm

LoL @ Dare2

Wasn't it Bill Gates that made that famous (infamous) quote many years ago about "16 K is all the memory anyone would ever need" (or something similiar). Fred would be helping Bill realize his dream at last.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:27 pm

Trond, thanks for todays best joke!

Keep the apples rolling... !!

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:36 pm

fsw wrote:Found RapidQ in Fall 2000 and loved it
14 days later Geoff bought William and the development stopped

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidQ