It's not surprising, given Vista's problems, that Bill 
would send out his minions 
to preach the word of the Ori.. er... windows.
Well, he's okay with free under very specific circumstances.
For instance, if you licensed software from a company and as part of the license you promised to pay them a percentage for every copy you sold...then gave the product away for free to help leverage your monopoly to crush an innovative American software company (and bankrupting the company you licensed the product from), that would be okay.
And it's okay to deny the U.S. Government and your customers your source code, but give it away to the Chinese Communists.
Those kinds of "free" are okay with GE.
But to give a product away for free to everyone equally with no strings attached to using it, that's an evil communist plot by the radical foreigners in North Carolina.
It's not surprising, given Vista's problems, that Bill would send out his minions to preach the word of the Ori.. er... windows.
Ridiculous, of course, the free software movement you support allows the Chinese government to not only view the source code of Linux, but to copy it, modify it, even rename and resale it, just as they do with "Red Hat" Linux which is built in North Carolina but renamed and resold as "Red Flag" in China with all proceeds going to the Chinese government. But rather than speak out against that absurdity, you rail against successful US corporations instead.