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By egregory
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Published: Feb 05 2013 / 10:20

Bill Gates, 1976: "Most of you steal your software."
On February 3rd of 1976, almost 10 years before unveiling Windows 1.0, an irate young Bill Gates wrote the following open letter in response to piracy of Altair BASIC, a piece of software Gates had produced with Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff, and which was essentially the first such release from Microsoft (then named Micro-Soft).
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This was posted 4 years ago in a blog. I wish I could vote down more than once.

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