Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation

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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Stop spreading this kind of FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

Stallman did not claim that the foundation doesn't really help the poor. He simply referenced some well known LA Times articles critical of the foundation.

That's all, nothing to get upset about.

Unless of course god awful sides like neosmart try to take it out of context and sensationalize it. And as usual, /. editors think it's worthwhile to lend them a hand in this endeavor.

Well done!

Re:Article focus

[jez9999]

With Stallman at the helm, the FSF is at risk of becoming the PETA of open-source advocacy organizations.

Does that mean we'll get large public demonstrations with hundreds of nerds getting nude to make a point? Or nerd celebs stripping off for a FSF poster campaign?