Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/January 31
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most of you steal your software. [...] Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
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General Partner, Micro-Soft
In 1976, today’s edition of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter published Bill Gates’ “Open Letter to Hobbyists”.