Digital art is at the beginning of a seismic shift in value perception

A story about a paradigm shift from an earlier era 👇

4/ It’s amazing to read this now — Gates as the underdog champion for a downtrodden creative class — but he threw himself and other developers in with creatives whose work had obvious value:

3/ If developers started being paid fairly, Gates argued, it would lead to a groundswell of software creation that would benefit everyone, from developers to hardware makers to the same hobbyists he called out as thieves.

2/ With software having eaten the world (h/t @pmarca), it's hard to believe how radical 21-year old Bill Gates was in 1976 when he wrote an open letter (in effect, a manifesto) declaring that software developers shouldn’t be ripped off for their work.