BrunoTorres.net: Interview with Richard Stallman Nov 6, 2004, 07 :00 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (6455 reads) (Other stories by Bruno Torres)
"BT - What's your opinion about Microsoft's 'shared source' initiative?
"RMS - If you compare Microsoft's practices with the definition of free software, you'll see that they have very little in common. There is nothing new about distributing proprietary source code under a nondisclosure agreement to certain select clients. That's how AT&T distributed Unix in the 1980s. My response to that was to launch the development of a free replacement for Unix, the GNU system..."