Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name…without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

— Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, pg. F2)

[See also: Dissonance in Liability | Copy-proof CD’s not so copy-proof? | Downtime | Quotes: OS X, iPod | Apple out of debt ]

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