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Free Software Magazine - issue 2!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-02-24 09:43. General

The second issue of Free Software Magazine has just been released. The issue is packed with interesting articles which cover technical and non technical aspects of free software. Free Software Magazine is available for subscription (paper and PDF) and all the articles are available online, and released under a free license (chosen by the author). I am looking for authors who are willing to cover Gnome/desktop related articles. Anyone?

No intentional "manipulation"

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-03-01 12:58.

And this is what Gates actually said (my emphasis):

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. [...] The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose.

Seems that "the prophet" doesn't mind a little manipulation here and there, eh? ;)

No, Stallman was not attempting to misrepresent Gates' opinion. If you have a look here:

http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/quotes/index.en.html#bgates91

you'll see that the elided Gates quote that rms used in his essay is exactly the same as the one from ffii.org. This strongly suggests that rms based his essay on an inaccurate second-hand quote. It is fair to argue that Stallman was careless in not checking his sources, but it is NOT fair to suggest that he did so intentionally -- blame ffii.org for that.

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