LinuxInsider: Stallman: Accusatory Report Deliberately Confuses

"GNU Project founder Richard Stallman has told LinuxInsider that a recent report's use of interviews with Stallman is a 'deliberate' attempt to confuse people about the origins of the Linux kernel, the GNU system and software developed as part of the free-software and open-source movements.

"'The purpose of this report is to confuse, to cause fear, uncertainty and doubt,' Stallman said of a draft of a report by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. 'These people have taken money from Microsoft, they've tried this before, and now they're trying to do it again...'"

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