Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @12:18PM 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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YRO? by jdludlow · 2005-02-15 12:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Serious question. Can anyone tell what this could possibly have to do with online rights?
Re:Should have been: by 4Lancer.net · 2005-02-15 12:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

LOL

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