{"id":32,"date":"2006-02-03T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-02-03T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:46:17","slug":"bill-gates-gets-question-answered-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Gets Question Answered, 30 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Homebrew Computer Club, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digibarn.com\/collections\/newsletters\/homebrew\/V2_01\/gatesletter.html\" target=\"_blank\">accusing them of theft<\/a>.&nbsp; In this letter, Bill asks: <\/p>\n<p><em>What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later, he has his answer:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Linus Torvalds and another couple hundred<br \/> &#8211; Andrew Tridgell and another couple dozen<br \/> &#8211; Larry Wall and another couple thousand<br \/> &#8211; Marc Andreessen and who knows how many<br \/> &#8211; Repeat for several thousand other open source projects&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Homebrew Computer Club, accusing them of theft.&nbsp; In this letter, Bill asks: What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? Thirty years later, he has his answer: &#8211; Linus Torvalds and another couple hundred &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}