__/ [ Phil Da Lick! ] on Saturday 22 July 2006 22:29 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Bill Gates demands open source
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Bill Gates is demanding that AIDS researchers share or open source
>> | their results if they're to get some of the $287 million the Gates
>> | Foundation is putting into the search for AIDS vaccines.
>> `----
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=719
>
> "The Foundation has recognized that one of the forces slowing medical
> progress is greed ? commercial rivalries, bureaucratic rivalries,
> personal rivalries."
>
> Whereas most of the IT community recognised long ago that the biggest
> force slowing software advancement was corporate greed and its many
> manifestations - eg software patents, trade secrets etc.
>
> Fucking hypocrite.
http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20
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| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
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| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now?he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful?until Microsoft became one
| of these giants...
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>From complaining about giants like IBM (should be somewhere in his Wikipedia
page) to becoming a shadow/close much worse than IBM... plus all the
corruption.
Best wishes,
Roy
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