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‘Don’t listen to Bill Gates. The open-source movement isn’t communism.’
Posted on 11.24.05 by templeton @ 2:53 pm

“This month, SAP’s Shai Agassi referred to open-source software as “intellectual property socialism.” In January, Bill Gates suggested that free-software developers are communists. A few years earlier, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the open-source operating system Linux “a cancer.”

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