Wirt Atmar writes:

>If HP has abandoned BASIC, it would be an extraordinary gift to the MPE
>user community to make it and SPL legal freeware. It would probably have
>to be on the terms that "you find your own manuals and don't call us",
>but in today's environment where information can be so easily and so
>cheaply distributed, that should not be much of a problem.

I wholeheartedly agree! Basic/V is an incredibly useful "API scripting
language", and if it's no longer of any value to HP, either placing it in
the public domain or releasing it with a GPL-type license would be a
no-cost way of providing a substantial benefit to the user community. I
can't even think of any way that providing BASIC/V and SPL for free would
cannibalize new product sales -- there simply is no equivalent for either.

-- Bruce


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