"And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade".

That was ironically Bill Gates

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...

It took him a while to come around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists