An Open Letter to Hobbyists

by Bill Gates

$9,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” – Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. This landmark work marks the birth of the commercial software industry, a critical moment in the digital revolution. Gates’ letter is the software equivalent of Steve Jobs’ prescient insight, on the hardware side, that personal computers could be a mass

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