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50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’

Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community. As the first home computers began The post 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’ appeared first on The New Stack.

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