An Open Letter to Hobbyists, from Bill Gates

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Business

Software piracy has been a problem from the earliest days of Microsoft. When they developed Altair BASIC, only about 10% of its users bought the software. The rest pirated it.

Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Altair community on February 3, 1976, explaining the need for buying software instead of just copying it. His arguments are very good and still apply to today’s software industry.

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