“Just keep in mind a lot of this “free” software is backed by radical leftists, like “the father of free software” Richard Stallman, www.stallman.org.”
Yeah, and VW used to be made by Hitler’s guys. I’m proud to say that I’ve reclaimed the name for the good guys.
The Mercedes is on the list too.
Yeah, and Bill Gates is such a wonderful guy... He just sent is goons, er, I mean lawyers, to attempt to extort payments from Linux vendors and users. Oh, wait, it wasn't quite outright extortion. How did he phrase it? Something along the lines of "You're in violation of 235 Microsoft patents. We might sue you...unless you sign this here agreement and pay us... Oh, what's that? No, I can't tell you which patents. Trust me, you're in violation, pay up or something bad might happen to your business..."
If that were a big guy in a cheap suit selling "fire insurance" to the corner coffee shop, we would all know exactly what was going on. But I guess when a billionaire does it, it is not a crime, it is business strategy.
If I have to choose the lesser of two evils, I'll go with the open source movement. At least they are not trying to lock me in to their products and only their products. If Novel/Suse gets a little too full of themselves, it's off to Red Hat or Ubuntu. Being pro-business and capitalism is great. But monopolies and monopolistic behavior sucks. (unless you are the monopoly)