Jonathan NAYLOR wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JN> I hate to be a spoil sport, but the implication in your mail 
 JN> that Bill Gates was the first to produce commercial software 
 JN> and that before everything was free and open is essentially 
 JN> wrong (despit what Levy says).

Yes, but it was Gates who, in those days, earned a reputation for sending
whining letters to the computer magazines complaining about software piracy. 
He was just obsessed with the issue and became identified with it.
 
-- Mike

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