"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which...
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An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed...
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2021-05-01. Retrieved 2021-04-28. Gates, Bill (February 3, 1976), An Open Letter to Hobbyists, archived from the original on April 16, 2018, retrieved September...
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unbundling hardware and software. Bill Gates' "Open Letter to Hobbyists" in 1976 decried computer hobbyists' rampant copyright infringement of software, particularly...
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being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, he wrote An Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90%...
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of an intention to give, not a legal contract. On the Giving Pledge's website, each individual or couple writes a letter explaining why they chose to give...
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APL (programming language) (category Programming languages with an ISO standard)
1981, included an APL interpreter developed by the University of Waterloo. In 1976, Bill Gates claimed in his Open Letter to Hobbyists that Microsoft...
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to have lost a considerable sum of money because few users paid for the software. As a result, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists. This letter was...
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BBC BASIC Integer BASIC Locomotive BASIC An Open Letter to Hobbyists Tiny BASIC Sources differ in regard to the first NCR data entry terminal integrating...
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from 1995 an 11% compound annual return, and as of 2014 had 100 employees working under his direction. In 2021, Cascade drew attention due to allegations...
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Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation although Gates uses it to support the Foundation's projects. Areas of research and investment include...
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Microsoft (category OpenCorporates groupings)
launched. To cope with the potential for an increase in demand for products and services, Microsoft opened a number of "holiday stores" across the U.S. to complement...
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University of Washington, cadging open time on the mainframe computer. Wennberg, later the founder of the Triakis Corporation, was an electrical engineering student...
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to his own 1976 Open letter to hobbyists, said "Unfortunately, some of the companies I have talked to about microcomputer software are reluctant to have...
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pp. 81–83. ISBN 0-471-56886-4. Gates, Bill (January 1976). "An Open Letter To Hobbyists". Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter. 2 (1). Mountain View, California:...
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reactor to the outside, thus "travelling wave". In September 2015, TerraPower signed an agreement with state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation to build...
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happy to take a half-billion in sweet, sweet US military money to 'increase lethality'". The Register. "Microsoft announces Project Mu, an open-source...
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Breakthrough Energy agreed to join an investors syndicate providing $80 million in capital to Verdox, Inc., a startup company attempting to scale a new carbon...
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BENlabs (category Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from December 2017)
sold eMotion LLC, its media management division, to Open Text Corporation. In May 2009, Corbis opened the Sygma Preservation and Access Facility outside...
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foundation maintains an online database of grants. In November 2014, the Gates Foundation announced that they were adopting an open access (OA) policy for...
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Homebrew meeting, urging recipients to make more copies. Gates responded in 1976 with a strongly worded Open Letter to Hobbyists that accused the copiers of theft...
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OER Project is a non-profit open educational resources provider co-founded in 2011 by Bill Gates and David Christian. Originally known as Big History Project...
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individual packs. An important historical event that led to the expansion of the market for retail software was the Open Letter to Hobbyists by Bill Gates...
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subject to widespread unauthorized copying, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists that openly accused many hobbyists of stealing...
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[failed verification] Free and open-source software portal History of free and open-source software Open Letter to Hobbyists Stallman, Richard (March 1985)...
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only reduce emissions from coal and gas used to produce electricity, but also allow an accelerated shift to zero emission transportation like electric cars...
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culture is devoted to open—that is to say, nonproprietary—standards, none of which were set by Microsoft. Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net...
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"How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates review – a germ of an idea". TheGuardian.com. May 29, 2022. Appleyard, Bryan (May 8, 2022). "How to Prevent...
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One such influential event was the publication of Bill Gates's "Open Letter to Hobbyists", which lambasted the early hackers of the time for violating the...
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an essay entitled "Open Letter to Hobbyists", in which he expressed dismay at the widespread sharing of Microsoft's product Altair BASIC by hobbyists...
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