Stallman on Gate’s Retirement
The exit of Bill Gates from Micro$oft might be old news for most since the media was quite devoted in covering it. But many would have not read the Free Software Foundation guru, Richard Stallman‘s article in BBC on his retirement.
In his article, he deplores the much attention given to his retirement and his success. The whole point of a unjust social system with proprietary software is missed. To quote in the guru’s words
The most important thing that Microsoft has done is to promote this unjust social system.Gates is personally identified with it, due to his infamous open letter which rebuked microcomputer users for sharing copies of his software.
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now.
You can check the whole article here at BBC
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