At the end of the day, someone stole his stuff, so he got pissed. He over-generalized and argued the wrong point, and hindsight kind of made it so he made an a

At the end of the day, someone stole his stuff, so he got pissed. He over-generalized and argued the wrong point, and hindsight kind of made it so he made an ass of himself. That said, there really are very few people alive who haven't gotten mad and made an ass of themselves at some point, so we should probably forgive this "Open Letter to Hobbyists". (I saw Gates talk when we opened a new building on Campus and someone asked him about the huge piracy rates in China so he brought up this letter in particular and said he's since learned to not get bent out of shape about it)