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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Bill Gates’s “Open Letter to Hobbyists” (1976) re: software piracy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eric S. Hintz, Ph.D.<br>
Historian, Lemelson Center for <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> the Study of Invention and Innovation<br>
National Museum of American History<br>
Smithsonian Institution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">MRC 604, P. O. Box 37012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Washington, DC 20013-7012<br>
WORK: 202-633-3734<br>
CELL: 610-717-7134<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">FAX: 202-633-4593<br>
<a href="mailto:hintze@si.edu"><span style="color:blue">hintze@si.edu</span></a><br>
<a href="http://invention.si.edu/"><span style="color:blue">http://invention.si.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Evan Koblentz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 27, 2016 2:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hansen Hsu <hansnhsu@gmail.com>; McMillan, William W <william.mcmillan@cuaa.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] History of intellectual property in computing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another IP issue is hardware cloning. There were many Apple II clones and even some Macintosh clones -- some made with Apple's permission, others not. This continues today with the "Hackintosh" trend and, on the software side, the issue
of jailbreaking and mobile app permissions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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