You mean on the Dim side (obvious) or the Microsoft side?
I don't have a committment to Republicans, they are just the lesser of two evils. But I do have a commitment to Open Source, why should I reconsider that?
You might be worse off than I thought if you're not sure...are you even conservative?
Why should you reconsider open source? Because, it threatens the US software industry, and the security of our nation. Most Linux guys close their ears as soon as they hear something like that, but maybe you'll listen.
Linux is eating through the US Unix economy, and is returning a fraction of those former dollars to our tech economy. We gain millions in new Linux sales, but lose billions in lost Unix sales.
And the open source nature of the code means we're giving that stuff away for free to all our worldwide comptetitors, and even worse to our adversaries. There's no export control laws on that stuff (yet), and there's not much return revenue either.
Bottom line is this "service minus sales" business model is a faulty one, plus it makes it virtually impossible for any company to get a technical leg up with their product code without have to share it with their competition. The whole movement is about taking everyone's code and giving it out worldwide for free, and America just wasn't built like that. Foreign companies like SuSe are just trojan horses to pluck intellectual property from the likes of IBM and Novell, and so far are getting away with it. Did you know that "Red Flag Linux" is the official operating system of the red chinese government? And that it is directly based on a version of Red Hat they were legally given for free? Do you see the problem yet, or did you quit listening after the first sentence?