Bricklin's Bootleg VisiCalc

David Weinberger points to Dan Bricklin's very ironic comments today on his blog about having a copy of VisiCalc which Microsoft used to demo w/Longhorn.

Despite the fact that Dan co-authored, VisiCalc, he ONLY had it, because someone happened to have made a bootleg copy of it. Go read him. Also read his piece Copy Protection Robs The Future which couldn't have been more right on -- and in opposition to Microsoft's views on digital rights management. Funny that they were able to rob the past, thanks to someone's bootlegging efforts.