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   Bill Gates

   After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. ... BASIC
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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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   Domestic robot

   In 2006, Bill Gates wrote an article titled "A Robot in Every Home" discussing the significant potential for robots (including domestic robotis) being accepted by society. ... Low level: a basic home robot is any robot that can be used at home, including the entertainment robots, like Aibo.
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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. ... An unknown person had brought a copy of Microsoft Altair BASIC on paper tape to that meeting.
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   TRS-80 Model 100 line

   The 32 kilobyte read-only memory of the Model 100 contains the N82 version of the Microsoft BASIC 80 programming language. ... ↑ Gates, Bill.
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   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

   ↑ Bill Gates Gives $122M for D.C. Scholarships.. ... Gates, Rockefeller foundations join to fight hunger in Africa 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.
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   DONKEY.BAS

   The game is also notable because it was co-written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. ... IBM insisted that we had to have a lock on the door and we only had this closet that had a lock on it, so we had to do all our development in there and it was always over 101 degrees, but we wrote late at night a little application to show what the Basic built into the IBM PC could do.
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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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   Hacker ethic

   In fact, when Bill Gates' version of BASIC for the Altair was 'shared' among the hacker community, Gates lost a considerable sum of money because no one was paying for the software. As a result, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists.
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    BASIC

    In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by college drop-outs Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft (who started today's corporate giant, Microsoft). The first Altair version was co-written by Gates, Allen and Monte Davidoff in a burst of enthusiasm and neglect of studies.

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• Bill Gates,
• Criticism of Microsoft,
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• Open Letter to Hobbyists,
• TRS-80 Model 100 line,
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
• DONKEY.BAS,
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution,
• Hacker ethic,
• BASIC