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Bricklin Unprotected

Dan Bricklin points out the irony of Microsoft using VisiCalc to demonstrate Longhorn’s backwards compatibility:

…the only reason I have a copy that can still work is that someone kept a “bootleg” uncopyprotected copy around

Just further evidence that, as Dan has written, “Copy Protection Robs the Future.”

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  1. Copy protection and copyright robs the future

    Halley, David Weinberger and and

  • Microsoft’s demo of VisiCalc on LongHorn proves that Copy Protection Robs The Future

    (SOURCE: Halley’s Comment )- What Halley said.

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