[Bush2000]

So your position is that if you quit paying the MS developers, they'd gladly stay on and work?

Non-sequitor. If the companies that pay the devs that do open source in their free time stop paying them, they're not going to afford to stay on and work on the OSS projects, either.

[ShadowAce]

Non-sequitor.

No, it's not. Less than half of all FLOSS developers are paid to develop software for the project they are woring on. Yes, most of the large, well-known projects have paid developers, but those comprise a very small minority of projects.