[dundee] Microsoft & Open Source

[gordon dunlop]

Open Source topped the list of business "risk factors" in its annual
report released recently. They were complaining that it was an unlevel
playing field, where in Open Source the software was at "Nominal Cost"
and they made money off services thereby undermining the cost of
proprietary products and forcing prices down.

http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=10096

Wait a minute here! Isn't this how the real world works? Where
competition between products reduces prices and cost for the consumer.
Who is living in dreamland?

Gordon