Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format

From	"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, alt.lang.basic
Subject	Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format
Date	2011-05-12 17:30 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<Xns9EE36AFB9F5A2auricauricauricauric@188.40.43.230> (permalink)
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"Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:15:28 +0100, Auric__ <not.my.real@email.address>
> wrote:
>> Don't think of LB vs BBC (vs anything else) as some sort of competition.
>
> Hear hear!  I wrote the utility because (a) it was needed, (b) I had the
> necessary skills and (c) it was an interesting programming exercise.  Just
> because my main allegiance is to BBC BASIC that doesn't mean I am
> *against* Liberty Basic; if the utility attracts a few more people to LB
> good luck to them.
>
> Some Liberty Basic folks just don't seem to be able to grasp this.  My
> 'reward' for writing the utility has been to be ejected from the Liberty
> Basic Programming Wiki, banned from the Liberty Basic Community Forum and
> having all my articles/posts - including those about the utility - deleted!

That's... weird. Maybe they think you're trying to "muscle in" on their 
"territory"...?

> Perhaps it's a uniquely British thing _not_ to be aggressively competitive.

More likely it's the American tendency to be a bunch of paranoid self-serving 
privileged "the world owes me a living" assholes.

-- 
Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense?

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Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-11 22:55 +0100
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 04:57 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "news@rtrussell.co.uk" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 08:00 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 15:15 +0000
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 18:08 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 17:30 +0000
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 23:34 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 23:42 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 10:02 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 10:19 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 17:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 15:14 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 22:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-16 10:08 -0600
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Derek <derekrss@yahoo.ca> - 2011-05-12 08:14 -0700
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-14 01:32 +0000
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 22:37 -0700
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:28 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 04:57 -0700
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:00 -0700
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:04 -0700
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:19 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-15 10:43 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:00 +0000
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-02 22:22 +0200
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 12:40 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-05 18:05 +0200
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 17:18 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 18:11 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 22:47 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Red Rooster <NewRedRooster@hottmail.com> - 2011-06-09 22:14 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:14 +0100

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