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- ▶ 23:43 David Senra And so Bill says, I explained that we were almost finished writing a version of basic, which is they're going to be their first product for the Altair. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:23 David Senra He winds up saving his ass later on, but the deal that they signed with MITS gave them the exclusive rights to sub-licensed R software to any other company that wanted to use the AD-AD basic in their products would have to get the source…
- ▶ 32:31 David Senra Since MITS held worldwide rights to AT-AT-BASIC, anytime we found a customer for the source code, the contract would have to go through MITS.
- ▶ 34:57 David Senra They refused to sell our basic to any other company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:05 David Senra This was our old strategy for the Altair Basic.