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Did Bill Gates buy the digital/electronic rights to the Louvre collections in the 90s? I seem to recall an article about it, but cannot find it.
by kaminar 6y ago
Did Bill Gates buy the digital/electronic rights to the Louvre collections in the 90s? I seem to recall an article about it, but cannot find it.
- sn_master 6y agoHe bought the DaVinci Codex and made them free as a Windows 98 screensaver :D https://news.softpedia.com/news/did-you-know-bill-gates-bought-da-vinci-s-codex-to-create-a-windows-screensaver-529114.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/did-you-know-bill-gates-boug... Rant: I have much more respect to that than the modern NFT craze. He didn't have any obligation to make them free to the public.