Moore’s Law mag bounty prompts theft

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law, Intel offered to pay $10,000 for a copy of the magazine in which the historic computing theory was first announced.

Not-so-coincidentally, the next day the University of Illinois engineering library noticed that one of its two copies of the April 19, 1965, edition of Electronics magazine was missing.

Now university libraries that have copies of the issue are pulling them for safe-keeping, even though Intel said it would only buy one from a library.

“We certainly were not looking to cause any problems for any of the libraries out there, and we did go out of or way in our posting to point that out,” Intel spokesman Manny Vara said.

Via San Francisco Chronicle