copyright
In YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie, I described my love-hate relationship with YouTube, at least as it existed in way back in the dark ages of 2007. Now think back through all the videos you've watched on YouTube. How many of them contained any original content? It'
software development
If you’re at all familiar with computer history, you might have heard of Bill Gates’ famous 1976 letter to the Homebrew Computer Club. The letter was written to address rampant piracy of Bill ’s earliest product, Altair BASIC, which was being passed around quite freely by hobbyists in paper
programming languages
A reddit user recently invoked link necromancy on a 1994 Donald Knuth letter [http://www.pluto.it/files/meeting1999/atti/no-patents/brevetti/docs/knuth_letter_en.html] to the U.S. Patent Office: > When I think of the computer programs I require daily to get my own work done,