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Nat Emodi@emodi
3/8/2024

4/ It’s amazing to read this now — Gates as the underdog champion for a downtrodden creative class — but he threw himself and other developers in with creatives whose work had obvious value:

In reply to @emodi
Nat Emodi@emodi
3/8/2024

5/ “Now I ask you — does a musician have the right to collect the royalty on the sale of his records or does a writer have the right to collect the royalty on the sale of his books? Are people who copy software any different than those who copy records and books?”