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THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 4

By Odile Ferrand · 4 parts · 14 h 25 min · English

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Seattle, Albuquerque, Boca Raton and Bellevue, 1968 to 1995. Two boys with access to a rented teletype terminal learn to write software in a decade when software is not a product, is not protected, and is given away with the hardware it runs on. Twelve years later one of them signs a contract with the largest computer company in the world in which he keeps the right to sell the same operating system to everybody else. The account follows what that clause did over the following fifteen years, how a per-copy royalty became a charge on machines that never ran the software at all, and what it took — two federal agencies, four years and a rejected settlement — to establish whether that was a business or a levy. Covers Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Microsoft.

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  1. Part 01

    3:21:23

  2. Part 02

    3:54:30

  3. Part 03

    3:18:23

  4. Part 04

    3:50:17

Books in this series

  1. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 0 min

  2. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 9 min

  3. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 7 min

  4. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 25 min

  5. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 5

    4 parts · 13 h 42 min

  6. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 6 min