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

[Philip Hunt]

On Monday 26 January 2004  7:06 am, Paul wrote:

> > Hi,
>
> > I would rather we all spend time productively working on
> > free software, campaigning against dodgy decisions on patenting and
> > using the benefits it brings to highlight Gates's basic errors.
>
> Definately, but with Palladium, DRM and all the other crap Gates has
> come up with in order to protect his monopoly (remember, MS still hasn't
> complied even nearly fully with the DoJ rulings yet), surely campaining
> against awarding knighthoods to those with a vested interest in
> destroying free software and innovation is the sort of thing which would
> be a good use of time?

Indeed. Consider the worthless shit's recent application of a patent
for Office XML.


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