[Fsfe-uk] Bill Gates to get a knighthood?

[Philip Hunt]

It appears everyone's favouritre monopolist, Bill Gates,
might be getting a knighthood:
   <http://www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_210.html>

While it could be argued that this doesn't matter, because a
knighthood is merely a symbolic title, I feel it is important
because people will tend to think of Gates in an undeservedly good 
light, and will tend to forget that he's made it his life work to 
prevent freedom when using computers, for example by:

- developing DRM

- developing Palladium, a way of making sure your computer won't
do what you want it to, but will do what corporations want instead

- using patents to attempt to prevent people writing compatible 
software competing with Microsoft 

- used vendor lock-in and other disreputable and illegal monopolistic
practises

-- 
Phil Hunt, address@hidden