More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie

Cally writes "Further embarrasingly lame FUD from Craig Mundie of Microsoft. This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take. Looks like he's really talking to legislators there ... He also knocks the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Passport SSO service as 'this notion that the world should be offered an alternative.' An alternative?"

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Re:Well, honestly, for once, he's right....

[Bullschmidt]

Actually, I bet many have (outside of the usual Redhat/Cygnus/etc group). See by USING (not selling), they save money, which in economic terms, is pretty much the same as making money (since it reduces costs, the net income is greater). If company A switches to all GPL open source software, while still developing their own code in a proprietary manner, they can save bundles of cash, which means they net more.