Boing Boing on MSN

50 years ago, a 20-year-old Bill Gates called hobbyists "thieves" for sharing software

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Bill Gates' infamous "Open Letter to Hobbyists," in which the 20-year-old accused ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

‘Most of you steal your software’ — Bill Gates complained about software piracy 50 years ago, and was openly irked by community's Altair BASIC ‘theft’

50 years ago ‘An Open Letter to Hobbyists,’ typed by William Henry Gates III, bellyached about software piracy among the ...