Thursday, February 17th, 2005, 6:26 am
Software Communists
Bill Gates arrested in his younger days (photo in public domain)
President of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, writes in CNET:
…Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism…
…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…