Ex-Microsoftie: Free Software Will Kill Redmond

Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who’s now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.

The mantra Curtis repeats throughout his book “After the Software Wars”: proprietary software is holding us back as a society.