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date 4/10/2025
tags All IntellectualFreedom
title You Steal Your Software

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// They say every accusation is a confession.

In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an angry letter to computer users saying "most of you steal your software".
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists an angry letter

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BASIC is a language created at Dartmouth in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.
 https://pldb.io/concepts/basic.html BASIC
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny John Kemeny
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Kurtz Thomas Kurtz

To celebrate its 50th, Microsoft released the source code to their first product, Altair BASIC, written in 1975.
 https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code celebrate
 https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC source code
 https://pldb.io/concepts/altair-basic.html Altair BASIC

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The 157 pages of source code contain zero mentions of Kemeny, Kurtz or Dartmouth.

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