[GNUz] Things Bill Said ...

[Jim Cheetham]

Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words

Patents,Microsoft,GNU is Not Unix,Spam,The Internet
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @12:18AM
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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/2331208