An Open Letter to Hobbyists
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"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 duplicat
Altair 8K BASIC on paper tape. This was a popular storage medium before the invention of the low-cost floppy disk.
Ad for the Apple I computer, noting Apple's policy of providing free or inexpensive software for its computers
Bill Gates at the European Commission 2025 P067383 605791
Bill Gates June 2015
Don't Copy That Floppy
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Don't Copy That Floppy was an anti-copyright infringement campaign run by the Software Publishers Association beginning in 1992.
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
…no. 13. Peterborough, New Hampshire: BYTE Publications. pp. 18–22. An article on software copyright law that discusses the "Open Letter to Hobbyists". Don't Copy That Floppy – Software anti-piracy campaign The letter in HTML format…
The "Disk Protector" showing the title of the campaign during the rap portion of the video
Screenshot from ad showing Corey and Jenny playing a video game