An anonymous reader writes “Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has an article in the BBC in which he maintains that Gates’ departure from Microsoft doesn’t mean the end of proprietary software and that the free software community needs to stand strong to undo the damages Bill Gates, Microsoft, and other proprietary software vendors (explicitly naming Apple & Adobe amongst them) have done. And he slips in a claim that the Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation doesn’t really help the poor; it just pretends to while actually subjecting them to greater harm.”
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