# LANGUAGE translation of https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bill-gates-and-other-communists.html # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the original article. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: bill-gates-and-other-communists.html\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2022-03-05 13:55+0000\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Content of: msgid "Bill Gates and Other Communists - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h2> msgid "Bill Gates and Other Communists" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><address> msgid "by Richard Stallman" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Bill Gates discussed patents with CNET under the heading of “<a " "href=\"/philosophy/not-ipr.html\">intellectual property</a>,” a term " "that covers many disparate laws. He said anyone who won't give blanket " "support to all these laws is a Communist. Since I'm not a Communist but I " "have criticized software patents, I got to thinking this calumny might be " "aimed at me." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The term “intellectual property” is too broad to have one " "opinion about. It lumps together copyright law, patent law, and various " "other laws, whose requirements and effects are entirely different. So " "anyone using the term “intellectual property” is typically " "either confused himself, or trying to confuse you. Why does Mr. Gates lump " "these issues together? Let's study the differences he sets aside." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Software developers are not up in arms against copyright law, because the " "developer of a program holds the copyright on the program; as long as the " "programmers wrote the code themselves, no one else has a copyright on their " "code. There is no danger that strangers could have a valid case of " "copyright infringement against them." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Patents are a different story. Software patents don't cover programs or " "code; they cover ideas (methods, techniques, features, algorithms, etc.). " "Developing a large program entails combining thousands of ideas, and even if " "a few of them are new, the rest must necessarily have come from other " "sources, such as programs the developer has seen. If each of these ideas " "could be patented by someone, every large program is likely to infringe " "hundreds of patents. Developing a large program means laying oneself open " "to hundreds of potential lawsuits. Software patents are a menace to " "software developers, and to the users. Since patent law covers execution of " "the program, the users can also be sued." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "A few fortunate software developers avoid most of the danger. These are the " "megacorporations, which typically have thousands of patents each, and " "cross-license with each other. This gives them an advantage over smaller " "rivals not in a position to do likewise. That's why it is generally the " "megacorporations that lobby for software patents." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Today's Microsoft is a megacorporation with thousands of patents. Microsoft " "said in court that the main competition for MS Windows is " "“Linux,” meaning the free software GNU/Linux operating system. " "Leaked internal documents say that Microsoft aims to use software patents to " "stop the development of GNU/Linux." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "When Mr. Gates started hyping his solution to the problem of spam, I " "suspected this was a plan to use patents to grab control of the net. Sure " "enough, in 2004 Microsoft asked the IETF to approve a mail protocol that " "Microsoft was trying to patent. The patent license policy for this protocol " "was written to forbid free software entirely. No program supporting this " "mail protocol could be released as free software—not under the GNU " "GPL, or the MPL, or the Apache license, or any other." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The IETF rejected Microsoft's protocol, but Microsoft said it would try to " "convince major ISPs to use it anyway. Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that " "an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is Communism; it was " "set up by that famous Communist agent, the US Department of Defense." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "With Microsoft's market clout, it can impose its choice of programming " "system as a de-facto standard. Microsoft has already patented some .NET " "implementation methods, raising the concern that millions of users have been " "shifted to a government-issued Microsoft monopoly." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "But Capitalism means monopoly; at least, Gates-style Capitalism does. " "People who think that everyone should be free to program, free to write " "complex software, they are Communists, says Mr. Gates. But these Communists " "have infiltrated even the Microsoft boardroom. Here's what Bill Gates told " "Microsoft employees in 1991:" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><blockquote><p> msgid "" "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 with no patents of " "its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Mr. Gates' secret is out now—he too was a “Communist,” he " "too recognized that software patents were harmful, until Microsoft became " "one of these giants. Now Microsoft aims to use software patents to impose " "whatever price it chooses on you and me. And if we object, Mr. Gates will " "call us “Communists.”" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "If you're not afraid of name calling, visit the <a " "href=\"https://ffii.org\"> Foundation for a Free Information " "Infrastructure</a>, and join the fight against software patents in Europe. " "We persuaded the European Parliament once—we even got support from " "right-wing MEPs—and with your help we will do it again." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Originally published in 2005 in <cite><a " "href=\"https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/bill-gates-and-other-communists/\"> " "CNET.com</a></cite>." msgstr "" #. TRANSLATORS: Use space (SPC) as msgstr if you don't have notes. #. type: Content of: <div> msgid "*GNUN-SLOT: TRANSLATOR'S NOTES*" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a " "href=\"mailto:gnu@gnu.org\"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. 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