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Comment by bigbillheck

2 years ago

> I think of how MS ... turned a blind eye toward piracy until

1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

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kens  2 years ago

Yes, the original claim is wildly ahistorical. I seriously think that one of Microsoft's key innovations that made it successful was the idea that software should be paid for, not shared, and this should be enforced by law.

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