Editing An Open Letter to Hobbyists (section)

== Magazines that published the letter ==
* {{cite journal | last = Gates | first = Bill | author-link = Bill Gates | title = An Open Letter To Hobbyists | journal = Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | page =2 | publisher = Homebrew Computer Club | location = Mountain View, California |date=January 1976 | url = http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/index.html}}
* {{cite journal | last = Gates | first = Bill | title = An Open Letter To Hobbyists | journal = Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter | publisher = Cabrillo Computer Center | volume = 2 | issue = 2 | page =1 | location = Lompoc, California | date = February 10, 1976}}
* {{cite journal|last=Gates |first=Bill |title=An Open Letter To Hobbyists |journal=Computer Notes |volume=1 |issue=9 |page=3 |publisher=MITS |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |date=February 1976 |url=http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_2&p=3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323162008/http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_2&p=3 |archive-date=March 23, 2012 }}
* {{cite journal | last = Gates | first = Bill| title = An Open Letter to Hobbyists | journal = Minicomputer News| publisher = Benwill Publishing | location = Boston, Massachusetts | date = March 11, 1976}}
* {{cite journal |last = Gates | first = Bill | title = An Open Letter To Hobbyists | journal = People's Computer Company | volume = 4 | issue = 5 | location = Menlo Park, California | date = March–April 1976}}
* {{cite magazine | last = Gates | first = Bill | title = Computer Hobbyists | magazine = Radio-Electronics | volume = 47 | issue = 5 | pages = 14, 16 | publisher = Gernsback Publications | location = New York | date = May 1976 | url = http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/May1976/RE_May1976.htm | access-date = 2007-11-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190129060033/http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/May1976/RE_May1976.htm | archive-date = 2019-01-29 | url-status = dead }}

Several responses to the letter were published, including one from Bill Gates.

* {{cite journal | last = Hayes | first = Mike | title = Regarding Your Letter of February 3 | journal = Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter | volume = 2 | issue = 2 | page =2 | publisher = Homebrew Computer Club | location = Mountain View, California |date=February 1976 | url = http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_02/index.html | access-date = November 25, 2007}}
* {{cite journal | last = Singer | first = Harold L. | title = An Open Letter to Ed Roberts | journal = Micro-8 Computer User Group Newsletter | publisher = Cabrillo Computer Center | volume = 2 | issue = 4 |page=1 | location = Lompoc, California | date = March 28, 1976}}
* {{cite journal|last=Gates |first=Bill |title=A Second and Final Letter |journal=Computer Notes |volume=1 |issue=11 |page=5 |publisher=MITS |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |date=April 1976 |url=http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_4&p=5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323162008/http://startup.nmnaturalhistory.org/gallery/notesViewer.php?ii=76_4&p=5 |archive-date=March 23, 2012 }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Childs | first = Art | title = Interfacial | journal = SCCS Interface | volume = 1 | issue = 6 |pages=2, 4 | publisher = Southern California Computer Society | location = Los Angeles, California | date = May 1976}} Editor Art Childs writes about the letter he received from the "author of Altair Basic" and the resulting controversy on propriety software.
* {{cite magazine | last = Wada | first = Robert | title = An Opinion on Software Marketing |magazine= BYTE | volume = 1 | issue = 11 |pages=90, 91 | publisher = BYTE Publications | location = Peterborough, New Hampshire |date=July 1976}}
* {{cite journal | last = Warren | first = Jim C. | author-link = Jim Warren (computer specialist) | title = Correspondence | journal = SIGPLAN Notices | volume = 11 | issue = 7 | page =1 | publisher = ACM |date=July 1976}} Jim Warren, the editor of ''[[Dr. Dobb's Journal]]'', describes how the [[Tiny BASIC]] project is an alternative to hobbyist "ripping off" software.
* {{Cite magazine | last = Moores | first = Calvin | title = Are you an author? |magazine= BYTE | volume = 1 | issue = 13 | pages =18–22 | publisher = BYTE Publications | location = Peterborough, New Hampshire | date = September 1976}} An article on software copyright law that discusses the "Open Letter to Hobbyists".