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by ds9
4546 days ago
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Why was Gates hectoring the hobbyists? 1. The hobbyists had a culture of freely sharing code, which Gates was trying to break up (now known as Linux, Github, C) 2. Software was about 5 years away from Congress making software definitely copyrightable in the US [1] (there had been some court decisions) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright |
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