Open Letter to Hobbyists

Annotation by Deane Barker • November 26, 2020 • tags: tech, copyright, history •

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In 1976, a young Bill Gates wrote a open letter to a computing newsletter imploring people not to make bootleg copies of his software. This letter is the source of much of the antipathy against Gates in the programming community.

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