Salon.com > By Janelle Brown http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Richard Stallman's plans for Microsoft http://www.salon.com/1999/04/19/gates_building_2/ http://www.salon.com/1999/04/19/gates_building_2/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/technology/log/1999/04/19/gates_building Earlier this week, Salon Technology published the news that, thanks to Bill Gates' $20 million grant to M.I.T. for a new laboratory for computer science, the Free Software Foundation would soon be housed in the Bill Gates Building. But according to free software guru Richard Stallman, this isn't quite correct.

In fact, says Stallman, only one tower of the new building will be named after Gates; and, fortuitously, the Free Software Foundation will be housed in the other tower. Still, writes Stallman, "I'm glad to have the opportunity to introduce the custom of fingering Mr. Bill in a place where I can more effectively do so."

However, Stallman does not limit his anti-Microsoft strategy to this relatively trivial act. In fact, he has a whole master plan, as revealed Friday in Linux Today. In a feature on the Web site, Stallman put forth a three-part program for punishing Microsoft if it loses the antitrust trial.

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