Richard Stallman on BBC News: It's not the Gates, it's the bars

by Volker Weber

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

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[Thanks, Nick D]

Comments

Nice one - especially the beating of apple, adobe and the rest - remember, the iPhone will make you slaves to apple like DOS did for MS... .

Heiko Voigt, 2008-07-04

@1 - very true... There are no "good guys" in the IT world. But the iPhone will (most likely) be more stable and "just work" as per the apple design model.

Paul Mooney, 2008-07-04

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