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February 17, 2005
stallman on gates communist statement
If you were waiting for Richard Stallman to weigh in on Bill Gates' statement about people who don't believe in software patents being communists, here it is. I love the bit where he quotes Gates:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."
"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. Now Microsoft aims to use software patents to impose whatever price it chooses on you and me. And if we object, Mr. Gates will call us "communists."
(RMS also makes the case for Gates attempting to use patents to control the Internet)
Posted by parody at February 17, 2005 11:23 PM
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