Open Letter To Hobbyists - Magazines That Published The Letter

Magazines That Published The Letter

  • Gates, Bill (January 1976). "An Open Letter To Hobbyists". Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter (Mountain View, CA: Homebrew Computer Club) 2 (1): p. 2. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/index.html.
  • Gates, Bill (February 10, 1976). "An Open Letter To Hobbyists". Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter (Lompoc, CA: Cabrillo Computer Center) 2 (2): p. 1.
  • Gates, Bill (February 1976). "An Open Letter To Hobbyists". Computer Notes (Albuquerque, NM: MITS) 1 (9): p. 3. http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_2&p=3.
  • Gates, Bill (March 11, 1976). "An Open Letter to Hobbyists". Minicomputer News (Boston MA: Benwill Publishing).
  • Gates, Bill (March-April 1976). "An Open Letter To Hobbyists". People's Computer Company (Menlo Park, CA: People's Computer Company) 4 (5).
  • Gates, Bill (May 1976). "Computer Hobbyists". Radio-Electronics (New York NY: Gernsback Publications) 47 (5): pp. 14, 16. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/May1976/RE_May1976.htm.

Several responses to the letter were published, including one from Bill Gates.

  • Hayes, Mike (February 1976). "Regarding Your Letter of February 3". Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter (Mountain View, CA: Homebrew Computer Club) 2 (2): p. 2. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_02/index.html. Retrieved November 25, 2007.
  • Singer, Harold L. (March 28, 1976). "An Open Letter to Ed Roberts". Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter (Lompoc, CA: Cabrillo Computer Center) 2 (4): p. 1.
  • Gates, Bill (April 1976). "A Second and Final Letter". Computer Notes (Albuquerque, NM: MITS) 1 (11): p. 5. http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_4&p=5.
  • Childs, Art (May 1976). "Interfacial". SCCS Interface (Los Angeles: Southern California Computer Society) 1 (6): pp. 2, 4. Editor Art Childs writes about the letter he received from the "author of Altair Basic" and the resulting controversy on propriety software.
  • Wada, Robert (July 1976). "An Opinion on Software Marketing". BYTE (Peterborough, NH: BYTE Publications) 1 (11): pp. 90, 91.
  • Warren, Jim C. (July 1976). "Correspondence". SIGPLAN Notices (ACM) 11 (7): p. 1. Jim Warren, the editor of Dr. Dobbs Journal, describes how the Tiny BASIC project is an alternative to hobbyist "ripping off" software.
  • Moores, Calvin (September 1976). "Are you an author?". BYTE (Peterborough, NH: BYTE Publications) 1 (13): pp. 18–22. An article on software copyright law that discusses the "Open Letter to Hobbyists".

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