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<title>Bill Gates and Other Communists
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2>Bill Gates and Other Communists</h2>
-<p>by Richard Stallman</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Originally published in 2005 in
-<a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-and-other-communists/">CNET
-News.com</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
<p>Bill Gates discussed patents with CNET under the heading of
&ldquo;<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">intellectual
@@ -89,11 +90,11 @@ these Communists have infiltrated even the Microsoft boardroom.
Here's what Bill Gates told Microsoft employees in 1991:</p>
<blockquote>
-<p>&ldquo;If people had understood how patents would be granted when
+<p>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 stand-still today...A future start-up
+industry would be at a complete stand-still today. &hellip; A future start-up
with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the
-giants choose to impose.&rdquo;</p>
+giants choose to impose.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Mr. Gates' secret is out now&mdash;he too was a
@@ -110,9 +111,17 @@ Europe. We persuaded the European Parliament once&mdash;we even got
support from right-wing MEPs&mdash;and with your help we will do it
again.</p>
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<hr />
+<p>Originally published in 2005 in <cite><a
+href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/bill-gates-and-other-communists/">
+CNET.com</a></cite>.</p>
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
@@ -130,13 +139,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
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@@ -157,7 +166,7 @@ of this article.</p>
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2005, 2015, 2021 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2005, 2021, 2022 Richard Stallman</p>
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href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -167,10 +176,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2021/01/31 17:25:34 $
+$Date: 2022/03/05 13:55:25 $
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