Eric Lippert, “How Many Microsoft Employees Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?” Eric Lippert’s Blog: Fabulous Adventures in Coding (http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert), October 28, 2003. See http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/10/28/53298.aspx....
Well for a start OSS does not mean free. Just because some OSS apps are free doesn't mean they have to be. I wonder how many Microsoft employees have actually ever been to opensource.org and can now argue about OSS without resorting to the usual FUD we get from Microsoft....
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