Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community.
As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world faced a question: Would its software be free?
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the day young Gates penned his infamous 1976 “Open Letter to Hobbyists,” complaining that his very first piece of commercial software had been pirated. It kicked off a series of reverberations, along with a major controversy that would continue boiling over the next half century — and ultimately shape the world we live and work in today.
Källa: 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ’software pirates’
