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Original scanned as a JPG by Len Shustek. Image was cleaned up and converted to PDF by Swtpc6800 en:User:Swtpc6800 Michael Holley: Author: Bill Gates: Permission (Reusing this file) Bill Gates sent this "Open Letter" to the Homebrew Computer Club and an exact copy was printed in the January 1976 issue of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter.
"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 Gates expresses dismay at the widespread duplication of software taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.
Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates founded Microsoft -- the world's largest software producer -- with his business partner Paul Allen. He stepped down from the company's board in 2014 to ...
From 1995 to 2017, he held the title of the wealthiest person in the world every year except in 2008 and from 2010 to 2013. In 1999, he became the first ever centibillionaire when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued other business and philanthropic endeavors.
Despite a current net worth of approximately $128 billion and an intention to work his way off the list of the world's richest people through his philanthropic work, Microsoft co-founder Bill...
Gates said he would support a tax policy which took away 62% of his fortune—worth $101 billion.
Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It was Microsoft's first product (as Micro-Soft), distributed by MITS under a contract.
The William H. Gates III Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William H. Gates III joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 5.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.