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Their leaders name was Yin. There's a Yin for every Yen.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: here's a Yin for every Yen.
Or in his case, a Yen for every Yin!
Marc
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Visual Basic was launched by Bill Gates at Windows World on May 20, 1991 and since then has gone through has fourteen releases. The pinnacle release, as far as many of are concerned was VB6, the final non-dot-net version. To celebrate VB's Silver Anniversary let's re-open the campaign to open source VB6. You were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they 'should.'
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Oh for f***s sake, why?!?!
So we can have a few branches of VB6 that don't work with each other as the parties that want it so bad will go to war as to which direction to take it?
I sure as sh*t wouldn't want a production app written in any of those abominations running around my enterprise.
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Then, when someone wants the same thing for, let's say... the first iteration of C#... we can echo your sentiments then as well.
It's not about the language (VB, C#, etc), its about how forked up it would get.
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Quote: I sure as sh*t wouldn't want a production app written in any of those abominations running around my enterprise.
Believe it or not, I only recently (fairly) worked a contract converting some VB3 apps that were in in production in an "enterprise"... if that wasn't bad enough I had to convert them to VB6 to enable them to run on Windows 7... 
It's true, I'll do just about anything for money.
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This "open source everything" campain should really stop. Open sourcing the language will NOT fix anything and is likely to introduce even more problems 
Those people should really bite the bullet and learn VB.Net at the very least.
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It will run nicely on my steam powered abacus 
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Huh? This isn't talking about open sourcing software built with VB. It's about open sourcing VB the language and (presumably) the IDE.
Besides, Classic VB is trivially decompiled (done it several times myself). Open source or not, those critical systems you're talking about are already available to anyone with time on their hands.
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N_tro_P wrote: If you have the source code of the system.
You can decompile Classic VB apps with access to nothing more than the exe file.
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I'd love to have a look at the source code just out of curiosity, as it was the first language that I used outside of Uni.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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And now, apparently, merging duplicate UserVoice requests counts as "censorship".
Quote:
Microsoft Censors Campaign To Open Source VB6
Update: May 23
Microsoft has merged the request on User Voice with one of the earlier "open source VB" requests. This essentially censors the user's voice without to seeming to be censorship.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sean Ewington wrote: You were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they 'should.'
That's a mathematician's quote. 
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Even if you're a diehard open source user, you can still use some closed-source software. Read on to find out why it's the right time to go to the dark side. Hoo-boy.
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Microsoft starts praising open source, Linux starts praising closed source? What's happening around. :/
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Reality hit the fan?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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It would be utterly fantastic if every piece of software was open source. Imagine the possibilities. The sky would no longer be the limit.
I already have too many forks in the kitchen drawer. 
Marc
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Meh, lots of Linux devs use Jetbrains stuff, and they're not open source, so it's not like this is a new trend.
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Informatics researchers from the University of Zurich have developed a not at all sinister-sounding system capable of predicting the quality of code produced by developers based on their biometric data. Where is my minority report?
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I am very sorry, I will not be able to get you that job.
You are left handed and blue eyes. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I would catch the thing on fire confusing it so into an never ending wtf loop. 
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Sorry I am not programmed to respond in that area.
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