Re:The best QBasic game ever?
by benatkin on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:21PM
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I can't find anything definitive but I suspect it would be less confusing to say "created by Microsoft" than "created by IBM". It seems Microsoft developed it but IBM somehow wound up with the copyright. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
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Back then Microsoft was working for IBM, so it's not that surprising that IBM ended up with the copyrights for QBASIC. What's more surprising is that IBM didn't end up buying the whole of DOS outright (but that's another topic entirely).
Also, I seem to recall reading (or seeing a video interview) where Bill Gates said QBASIC was his last ever coding job.
Oh, I see. It still seems lamesauce for an article that's targeted toward techies to say that IBM created it. Seems like it's a journo looking for a story rather than someone who really cares about the subject matter. Oh well, it was interesting, but I'd rather read a blog post about it than a MSM magazine article.
> Seems like it's a journo looking for a story rather than someone who really cares about the subject matter.
Welcome to the world journalism. It's full of people who either aren't technical enough to work in the field they're reporting on, don't care that much about such industries (they're reporting on it for the love of journalism/writing), or have to dumb stuff down so much to appeal to a wider audience that the article loses accuracy / objectivity.