Is this legal? I hear that Microsoft has some really good lawyers, and I
never want to tangle with them.
Walt Hucks.
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No, but Microsoft's lawyers have bigger fish to fry right now. The
only lawyer you have to worry about is your own conscience and common
sense.
Don't worry about a lawsuit. Worry about what that "FREE!" compiler might do
to you system. Do you really want to execute that much machine code, no
sources available, from an untrusted source?
Get FirstBasic. It's only $25. Feed "BASIC compiler" to your favorite search
engine and sift through the million-odd hits for some free implementations.
None of them is QB, but some have features that QB lacks.
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Art Swan wrote in message <36240...@207.71.36.3>...
L. Francisco Abarca wrote:
>QBASIC 4.5 isn't there!!!
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> >>
> >
> >Is this legal? I hear that Microsoft has some really good lawyers,
> and I
> >never want to tangle with them.
> >
>
> No, but Microsoft's lawyers have bigger fish to fry right now. The
> only lawyer you have to worry about is your own conscience and common
> sense.
>
>
Common sense and my conscience tell me to avoid any such "free" downloads.
I'd hate to see my own work stolen and given away for free. I won't do it to
them, either.
Walt Hucks
> Microsoft must have forfeited any legal rights to qbasic 1.1 since they
> give it away for free at:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/contents/admintools/w95olddosutil/default.asp
Giving software away for free does NOT mean you abandon all rights to it.
Read my article in the Basix Fanzine - it will tell you all you need to know on
the subject. It's in issue 12.
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We're not talking about QBasic 1.1. We're talking about Quick Basic
4.5. There is a huge difference. QBasic is just a little toy subset
of the Quick Basic IDE that Microsoft started giving away beginning
with DOS 5.0, just to replace <gag> GWBASIC.
And besides, Microsoft has not given away all rights to QBasic by
giving it away free. Just try relabelling it and selling it as
something else, and you'll find out real quick that Microsoft is still
quite protective of it.
jdm
> Get FirstBasic. It's only $25. Feed "BASIC compiler" to your favorite
search
> engine and sift through the million-odd hits for some free
implementations.
Wuzup everybody...
First of all, there's no free Qb on that site...
Now second, Steve... You never stop trying to sell your shit, huh?
I think everybody heard enough about your FirstBasic.
No, because you work on PowerBasic doesn't mean you gotto
tell us all, all days long, "Get FirstBasic". Cut that shit bro.
And, well, parts of QB 4.5 is actually free for download.
The diffrence is that not all of the doc's follow this free version.
Get it at:
http://www.algonet.se/~emden/filer/qb45.zip
Iman Mirbloki
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iman...@usa.net
> Microsoft must have forfeited any legal rights to qbasic 1.1 since they
> give it away for free at:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/contents/admintools/w95olddosutil/default.asp
>
QBASIC 1.1 is not Quick BASIC 4.5. But in any case, they are both
copyrighted. Even if MS gives one or both away free, that doesn't give you
or I that right. We have to have permission, unless it is "public domain."
But then, it isn't really just a legal issue. If I give my own work away,
that's my choice. But that doesn't mean _you_ can give it away. If
Microsoft gives QBASIC 1.1 away, that doesn't mean that someone completely
unrelated can give away Quick BASIC 4.5 or even give away the identical
program that MS gives away.