[luau] NEWS: (conference) transcript from gates interview

[R. Scott Belford]

This is one of the sections where he talks about os, the gpl, and 
espouses some propaganda...


http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/04-17glc.asp

"One thing that we get people discussing with us a lot is how to create 
jobs around IT activity. And I think you will see some countries who 
really believe in the capitalistic approach; that is, that software 
should generate jobs, and government R&D should generate jobs, so that 
government R&D should be done on a basis that it can be commercialized. 
There's a faction against that, the so-called general GPL source license 
free software foundation, that says that these other countries other 
than the U.S. should devote R&D dollars in the so-called open approach, 
that means you can never commercialize that software. And it is an 
interesting choice to deny -- for a country to deny itself the benefits 
of these high-paying jobs and the kind of taxes that let countries fund 
their universities, and fund general research that then goes to renew 
that pool of commercial R&D. Clearly there's an ecosystem there that has 
worked extremely well in the United States, and has probably been the 
unique thing that has let that push forward. And there is now a 
recognition that it's really a question of policy of allowing the 
so-called capitalistic approach to win the day there."  -bill gates
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