Salon: Free Software Communists

“Richard Stallman must be sleeping well this week. Eight years
ago, I accompanied the free software pioneer on a visit to the Bill
Gates-funded computer science building on the Stanford campus. To
get in we had to pass through an entrance that sported the
Microsoft founder’s name engraved on high. Stallman gave Bill the
finger, and then tried to convince some passersby that they should
likewise flip Bill off. They looked at him like he was crazy.

“Crazy like a fox. This week, the New York Times reported that
the Communist state government of Kerala, India, ‘is campaigning to
eliminate Microsoft from use in public institutions.’ The
government wants state-funded entities, such as public schools, to
switch to free software, such as Linux-based operating systems. And
guess what? Richard Stallman was very much involved…”

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