Protester Crashes Gates University Ceremony
2007-04-20 15:33:10 Shanghai Daily
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A man holds up a sign after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered
a speech at Peking University in Beijing April 20, 2007. The sign
reads "Free Software. Open Source." [Photo: Reuters]
A Supporter of open-source software disrupted Bill Gate's
attendance at a prize-giving ceremony in Peking University this
morning.
The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp was handing out prizes
to award winners of the university's 2007 Innovation Year Meeting
when a young man jumped onto the stage holding a sign reading:
"Free Software. Open Source." The man also shouted slogans such as
"Open source."
Guards and university staff escorted the protester out of the room
where the ceremony was taking place.
The source codes of Microsoft's proprietary operating system,
Windows, are not open to the public.
Gates elaborated on his ideas at the university about extending the
Windows operation system into television and mobile phones in the
future.
In a speech he gave at Tsinghua University yesterday, he talked
about further cooperation between Microsoft and China and
innovations in the digital era.
Microsoft escalated its cooperation with Amoisonic Electronics, the
Xiamen-based mobile phone and electric apparatus manufacturer, from
notebooks into more areas including mobile phones and digital
television earlier this year.
