Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week

[Kent Sharkey]

ZDNet[^]:

A day later, everyone's seemingly alive but Windows still isn't 'free.'

Just in case the world ends, we'll know why

Also, if anyone has any spare heaters, I think some place need to get thawed

[n podbielski]

Quote:

Because, in that case, the only real conclusion we can come to is that Microsoft still thinks it can kill Linux and FOSS - it's just in the early stages of a classic gambit from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Yeah. Probably. Few years and everybody will use MS Linux :)

No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |

[thewazz]

I wonder what he charged.

[Kent Sharkey]

Good question. I’m sure it wasn’t Gnuthing. He also has an interesting rider for his talks. Worse than Van Halen’s: Please Do Not Buy Richard Stallman a Parrot And Other Rules[^]

TTFN - Kent