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The news is rich in irony for the followers of the free software movement.
The offices of the pioneering Free Software
Foundation were long housed at MIT's Laboratory for Computer
Science. Although the business office has since moved to downtown Boston,
free software guru Richard Stallman still has an office at the LCS, and his foundation still maintains a laboratory in the building for its
programmers. In other words, unless it moves out first, the Free Software Foundation
will soon occupy quarters named after Bill Gates. Staffers at the Free Software Foundation office
wouldn't comment, and Stallman did not respond to e-mail inquiries. But considering Stallman's reaction to the Gates Building at Stanford (he gave it the finger), the notion of a Gates-housed Free Software Foundation has to hurt.
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