The BBC has become a forum for Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, to criticize Bill Gates and the legacy he will leave on the world. Mr Stallman argues that Bill Gates’ philanthropy to developing nations can’t make up for all the damage caused to them by Microsoft:

Microsoft would have us believe that helping your neighbour is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship. The most important thing that Microsoft has done is to promote this unjust social system. Gates is personally identified with it, due to his infamous open letter which rebuked microcomputer users for sharing copies of his software […] Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now. Dismantling them is up to us.

Great minds think alike and this news site made similar observations after Bill Gates tried to spin Microsoft as an organization that actually helps developing nations.