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
Bill Gates Must Die it was by Microsoft, and we didn't want to have Microsoft come after this." The song later appeared on the Fortune Records' local music compilation album "Fortune Cookies". Reviewing the Fortune Records' compilation album "Fortune Cookies", "Allmusic"s Denise Sullivan called "Bill Gates Must Die" an "adolescent rock rant." "CMJ New Music Monthly" called the song "a soon-to-be hit." "Ink 19"s Jason Feifer called it one of the "a few sloppy mounds of music [...] that provides nothing particularly special or new." "Allmusic"s Matt Fink reviewed "Bill Gates Must Die" with "the big bruising guitars [...] drive lyrics that are surprisingly