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Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words

Posted by timothy on from the open-up-for-the-airplane-zooooooom dept.

soloport writes "C|Net has published an article, written by RMS, in which Stallman points out that Gates is merely calling the kettle communist. Toward the end of the article, Stallman strengthens his point by feeding Bill his own words. Back in 1991, Bill said, in an internal memo: '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.' Now, if only Bill were as clear-minded on the subjects of Innovation and Interoperability."

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  1. Hehehe by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Stop repeating everything I'm saying!"

    "Stop repeating everything I'm saying!"

    "Stallman's a dork."

    "Stallman's a... HEY!"

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    1. Re:Hehehe by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > "Stop repeating everything I'm saying!"
      > "Stop repeating everything I'm saying!"
      > "Stallman's a dork."
      > "Stallman's a... HEY!"

      *pause*

      "Stallman's a GNU/dork?"

    2. Re:Hehehe by kurosawdust · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pfft. Richard Stallman is a genius - everybody knows he'd counter that tactic by grabbing Bill's arms and knocking them on his head, saying "Why are you hitting yourself, Bill? Why are you hitting yourself??"

  2. Admittedly, RMS IS a Commie, but... by 7Ghent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gates is merely doing what's best for the stockholders. Oh wait. That's HIM.

  3. Re:calling the kettle communist?? by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    He spelled it wrong. It meant to say calling the kettle GNU/communist.

  4. Re:calling the kettle communist?? by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 3, Funny
    Idiom "the pot calling the kettle black"

    So clearly the pot is a pinko commie. Probably a liberal too. Obviously not Revere Ware.

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  5. Should have been: by temojen · · Score: 3, Funny

    The hammer calling the sickle communist.

  6. Other 14 year old quotes by enjo13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The transfomers are WAAAY better than G.I. Joe" - me

    "Seriously, I didn't sleep with that woman. " - Governor Clinton

    "Remember what I said about taxes.. uhm, psyche!" - George Bush 1

    "Don't make me tell daddy" - George Bush 2

    "I bet I could make money on this internet thing" - Steve Case

    Ahhh.. good ole '91

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  7. Best part of the C|Net article... by Infonaut · · Score: 5, Funny
    is as usual, the comments section.

    There's an entire thread devoted to discussion of how much Stallman needs to "get a haircut," since of course how you wear your hair is an indicator of the worth of your ideas.

    Imagine if Einstein hadn't worn a crewcut his entire life. Where would we be then?

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  8. Re:Well You know what they say about absolute powe by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're just going to have to trust me. And stop masturbating so much, it makes me sad.

  9. Re:In fairness to M$FT... by mattspammail · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently you didn't read the "Allowed HTML" tag section when you were posting. Your tags didn't come out right.

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  10. Re:In fairness to M$FT... by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 4, Funny
    Avery Lee 00-12-05: ASF support removed at request of Microsoft

    Can't quite make out that date format. Is it the 0th of December or the twelfth of Nonuary?

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  11. Re:In fairness to M$FT... by hunterx11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously. That would be as stupid as suing IBM without any evidence.

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  12. Re:In fairness to M$FT... by ikkonoishi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I came up with my own date format once.
    It went YMYDMYDY.
    Please help me push it as the new international standard as I'm sure it will alleviate the confusion.

    Today: 20012055