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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.

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...

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.

Trond, thanks for todays best joke!

Keep the apples rolling... !!

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