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Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the business-as-usual dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has an article in the BBC in which he maintains that Gates' departure from Microsoft doesn't mean the end of proprietary software and that the free software community needs to stand strong to undo the damages Bill Gates, Microsoft, and other proprietary software vendors (explicitly naming Apple & Adobe amongst them) have done. And he slips in a claim that the Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation doesn't really help the poor; it just pretends to while actually subjecting them to greater harm."

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  1. Oh God, by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    My mind is screwed. It immediatly thought of RMS wielding a big a big katana running like a madman towards Gates and a legion of MS employees.

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  2. Re:Too far by smallfries · · Score: 5, Funny

    William. Shatner. Sighted.

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  3. Re:"Anonymous reader" by exley · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know what thought just occurred to me? What if RMS is really just another twitter sockpuppet?

  4. Re:You're a blind idiot by exley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe if you stopped sucking your own cock every now and then, you'd have a better self-image.

    Guys who can suck their own cock don't need better self-image.

  5. Re:You see, there's this thing called economics by Khaed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, and we all know people that use Linux instead donate the cost of the Windows license to charity.

  6. Re:You see, there's this thing called economics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And you are a moron that believes the academic swill. Capitalism is categorically NOT a naive generalisation of principles that hold true under very specific conditions.

    Capitalism is a universal theory of human praxis that predicts outcomes across the totality of the spectrum of human coercion and human production. In fact, it's minimization functions clearly show that maximal output of *any* good and service occurs at minimum necessary force to secure law and order. Capitalism utterly predicts everything that happens under communism.

    Please really learn economics. I suggest strongly reading Capitalism by George Reisman as a starting point and working from there.

    Geez F'ing Christ. The stupidity rampant on /. lately makes me want to scream.