Bill Gates with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. Microsoft's Altair BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90 percent of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and by doing so the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for
University of Glasgow Memorial Gates thirty distinguished figures associated with the University. The gates are protected as a category B listed building. The Memorial Gates were erected in 1952 to commemorate the University's quincentenary, which had been in 1951. They were presented to the University by the General Council, the body of graduates of the University, on 18 June 1952. They are attached to older gatepiers, which were erected in 1889 to designs by A G Thomson. The Memorial Gates were designed by architect A Graham Henderson. The installation is formed of two large central gates, suitable for admitting vehicles, held up by large stone