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een-seventies are now struggling or gone, and the reason that Microsoft, for all its power, could disappear in a decade. Scott McNealy, the head of Sun Microsystems, which is a leading manufacturer of computer workstations, told me, "I like Bill. Bill is a smart guy. But I think the problem is that Microsoft ha
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a n
ir owners began to do the same thing with Micro-sort's basic. Then, in February of 1976, Gates published "An Open `Z.:. Letter to Hobbyists" in the Altair newsletter, and the letter now stands as a sort of Magna •;; Carta of the software industry--the underpinning of the intellectual--property structur
en-seventies are now struggling or gone, and the reason that Microsoft, for all its power, could disappear =in a decade. Scott McNealy, the head of Sun Microsystems, which is a leading manufacturer of computer workstations, told me, "I like Bill. Bill is a smart guy. But I think the problem is that Microsoft has
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
en-seventies are now struggling or gone, and the reason that Microsoft, for all its power, could disappear =in a decade. Scott McNealy, the head of Sun Microsystems, which is a leading manufacturer of computer workstations, told me, "I like Bill. Bill is a smart guy. But I think the problem is that Microsoft has
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
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