Stallman is a green party Naderite, while Gates has given to Republican offices all over the country. Gates is further right than Jobs at Apple, who is still further right than Stallman. I'll take either over that fruitcake Stallman, who wants all software to be what he calls "free", but for us to pay a "software tax" instead.
Yes. No one is saying different.
while Gates has given to Republican offices all over the country.
He also gave to Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy and Patty Murray.
As well as a big gift to the UN for "population control." And let's not forget his big gift of 97% of the Microsoft Windows source code to the Communist Chinese government.
I'll take either over that fruitcake Stallman, who wants all software to be what he calls "free", but for us to pay a "software tax" instead.
And the nice thing about the open source community is that there is room for many divergent views, including right-wing gun nuts like Eric Raymond (who donated to Sam Brownback) and liberitarians like Bruce Perens. This is in contrast to the Microsoft High Council that donates just like Bill.
And do note that when Stallman called for the "software tax" to fund open source it was because of the de facto software tax that PC buyers pay to Microsoft because of the licensing agreements that Microsoft insists upon.