You still don't get it. Read up on what a Beowulf is before you spout further nonsense.
So Cray has to now compete with our government, who is releasing free products that destroy their business?
Cray uses free products in what it sells.
Contracting for a full product when there is a free version available that will do the job is a subsidy. I don't like subsidies. If the government feels that $100,000 worth of contributions to Linux will do the same as a million dollar contract, that's $900,000 of my tax dollars that were just saved. Plus the government can redistribute that $100,000 worth of programming if it wants to, meaning I actually get a tangible return on my tax dollars.
Can't beat that situation. Only people who think the sole benificiaries of government IT spending should be the corporate beltway bandits have a problem with that.
No it's not, it's buying a product produced by free enterprise, not replacing free enterprise with government produced products like socialists like to do.
Of course you're still parroting Stallman with every post of yours. You call him a kook, but then march along in perfect lockstep.