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   Open Letter to Hobbyists

   The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.
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   Bill Gates

   In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment. ... ↑ Gates, Bill.
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   Criticism of Microsoft

   When Microsoft discovered that its first product, Altair BASIC, was subject to widespread illegal copying, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists that openly accused many hobbyists of stealing software.
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   Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

   Among them are: John Draper (also known as Captain Crunch), infamous phone phreaker; Bill Gates, Harvard dropout and “cocky wizard” who wrote Altair BASIC; Richard Greenblatt, the “hacker's hacker”; Steve Jobs, visionary; Marvin Minsky, “playful and brilliant" MIT professor who headed the MIT AI Lab; Richard Stallman, The Last of the True Hackers; and many, many others. ... Gates responded by writing an open letter titled “Open Letter to Hobbyists” that considered the sharing of software to be theft.
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   Jack Thompson (attorney)

   Thompson also criticized Bill Gates and Microsoft for contracting with Rockstar Games to release the game on the Xbox. ... In 2005, he wrote an open letter to Entertainment Software Association president Doug Lowenstein, making what he described as a "a modest video game proposal" (an allusion to the title of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, A Modest Proposal) to the video game industry: Thompson said he would donate $10,000 to a charity designated by Take-Two CEO Paul Eibeler if any video game company would create a game including the scenario he described in the letter.
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   History of Microsoft

   ↑ "May 16, 1991 internal strategies memo from Bill Gates". ... "Microsoft Bob: the social interface", Soft-Letter (1995-01-17).
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   Warren Buffett

   Buffett wrote in his letter “unless it appears that circumstances have changed (under some conditions added capital would improve results) or unless new partners can bring some asset to the partnership other than simply capital, I intend to admit no additional partners to BPL.” ... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people
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   Open letter

   Bill Gates's Open Letter to Hobbyists attacking copyright infringement in software development, practices of which he did not approve ... Open letters
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   Microsoft

   Steve Ballmer joined the company on June 11, 1980, and later succeeded Bill Gates as CEO. ... Dave Norris, a Microsoft employee, ran an internal joke campaign to save the old logo, which was green, in all uppercase, and featured a fanciful letter O, nicknamed the blibbet, but it was discarded.
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    Chain letter

    "Chain Letter Evolution". ... Bill Gates offering $1,000 for simply forwarding e-mail at the Urban Legends Reference Pages

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• History of Microsoft,
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• Open letter,
• Microsoft,
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