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Gates: Nobody's getting rich writing software
Recorded in 1980, Bill Gates has some revealing things to say about the
proprietary software industry (in answer to Harry, but with irony of
course).
B-K: Would you like to address some comments to a generalized
public, as, I would say, probably the acknowledged
leader of the microcomputer software industry?
BG:Well, as far as the whole rip-off issue, unfortunately, it
gets... The trade is something totally different than what it
is. It's simply a matter of... It's not manufacturers trying
to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody
getting rich writing software that I know of. There are
people who would like to stay in business and earn a salary
writing packages for these low-cost computers, but... And
every time somebody comes up with a scheme for making
it difficult to protect, there's a great deal of unhappiness
expressed on the part of the user, because they want to be
able to make the duplicate copies.
The whole thing can be found at
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/20/1316236
http://www.thesync.com/geeks/gates1980.html will allow you to listen to
the historic moment.
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