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| schestowitz[TR3] | >> Hi Liam, | Jul 28 15:41 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | >> | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | >> Thanks for the good articles. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | >> | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | >> I wanted to ask, that latest Gates article... was it your idea of the | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | >> assignment/idea of the new management? | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > I wondered what you meant when I saw this, but I don't tend to handle | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > work email over the weekend, so I left it until now. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Fair enough, thanks for the belated response. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | If you can give me a non-work E-mail address, than I can use that instead. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Now, thinking about it -- I guess that you mean the Altair BASIC piece? | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Actually, it was from a freelance colleague who noted the date. I have | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > more retro knowledge than just about anyone else on the team these | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > days, so I did it instead. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Yes, you are good at it. I follow your personal blog and even cited/quoted it in a lawsuit I filed this month in the UK High Court. Info here: | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/16/Why_I_am_Suing_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Alex_Balabha.shtml | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Said colleague is Gareth Halfacree, with whom I worked on Custom PC | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > magazine back in 2003 when it launched. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > He's not management or an editor, just a freelance contributor who | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > occasionally works for the Reg for a week or so when we are short | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > handed. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > It didn't take much research, just checking a few dates. I'm a slow | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > writer, but I knocked it out in a couple of hours. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Your output is good, I don't write to you in bad faith. I can assure you that. The previous editor in chief and I discussed your good work months ago. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | >> If I don't hear back, I'll just say "no comment". | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > You are imputing -- well, I'm not sure what, but something negative | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > enough to need a "no comment" when it was just a 50th anniversary of a | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > not-very-important date _at the time_. Went on to be significant, | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > though. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Lately the publication hired Microsoft voices, and that includes two editor. That worries me not because of the background but due to recent output. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Nothing to do with the new editor-in-chief, who I met last week and | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > had a few beers with. He's quite new and talking to him my impression | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > is that he doesn't want to rock the boat so he is very much hands-on | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > but not pushing or pulling the tiller, so to speak. | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Why? | Jul 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I analysed the finances of The Register last week (its parent company) and I worry it'll drift towards another goal, maybe new ownership structure. There is more information in http://techrights.org - i think the new EIC already reads it. | Jul 28 15:41 |
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