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Salon.com: Richard Stallman’s plans for Microsoft

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 19, 1999

“Earlier this week, Salon Technology published the news that,
thanks to Bill Gates’ $20 million grant to M.I.T. for a new
laboratory for computer science, the Free Software Foundation would
soon be housed in the Bill Gates Building. But according to free
software guru Richard Stallman, this isn’t quite correct.”

“In fact, says Stallman, only one tower of the new building will
be named after Gates; and, fortuitously, the Free Software
Foundation will be housed in the other tower.”

“However, Stallman does not limit his anti-Microsoft strategy to
this relatively trivial act. In fact, he has a whole master plan,
as revealed Friday in Linux Today. In a feature on the Web site,
Stallman put forth a three-part program for punishing Microsoft if
it loses the antitrust trial.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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