When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates

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By EditorDavidFeb 1, 2026, 7:22 pm192 ptsTrendingTop
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community," remembers this 50th-anniversary commemoration of Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists. "As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world faced a question:…

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