[Salo]

Think of this as “extortion.” Give us cheap Windows software or we’ll use the free stuff.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Think of this as “extortion.” Give us cheap Windows software or we’ll use the free stuff.

Shoot, I don't see what the problem is. I use Open Office from Sun Microsystems (open source Office Suite knockoff) which is just as good as anything Microsoft puts out, but doesn't cost me hundreds of $$$. If it's there, a smart person will use it, I figure.

[AFreeBird]

Think of this as “extortion.” Give us cheap Windows software or we’ll use the free stuff.

I just bought a new laptop, it came with Vista Business. Wanna guess what it's running?

Yep, the "free stuff". openSUSE 11.1 specifically.

You do realize FR runs on the "free stuff", don't you?

[Knitebane]

Think of this as “extortion.” Give us cheap Windows software or we’ll use the free stuff.

The "no money" part of the Open Source market is merely a nice unintended consequence.

Open Source is about being able to have control over what your software is doing, about being able to change it if need be and about being able to verify that it's not doing something nefarious.

No matter how cheap Microsoft makes Windows they are unlikely to give up all of their source code to Vietnam.

Now China is a different story. Microsoft already gave the People's Republic of China all of their source code.

Then again, Microsoft just might. The Vietnamese are struggling comrades against the running dog capitalists too, I suppose.