{"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":"

Thirty years ago, Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Homebrew Computer Club, accusing them of theft<\/a>.  In this letter, Bill asks: <\/p>\n

What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? <\/em><\/p>\n

Thirty years later, he has his answer:<\/p>\n

– Linus Torvalds and another couple hundred
– Andrew Tridgell and another couple dozen
– Larry Wall and another couple thousand
– Marc Andreessen and who knows how many
– Repeat for several thousand other open source projects… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty years ago, Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Homebrew Computer Club, accusing them of theft.  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: – Linus Torvalds and another couple hundred – […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t