OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen

seldo writes "More news from Microsoft's latest quarterly filing: according to eWeek, Microsoft says it may have to lower its prices in response to competition from open-source software. From the filing: "To the extent the open source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline". This is a fairly major revelation from Microsoft, and if it happens, it may be one of the biggest wins yet for open-source software: what do you know -- competition works!"

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Re:I'm your muppet in a sea of BS.

[Xerithane]

...hegemity.

Sorry, the english language is not open source. You do not get to add and remove as you see fit. I believe the word you were looking for is hegomony.

They are starting to see that free software is better software and always will be. Better software does make for a lower total cost of ownership as it eliminates the intentional waste propriatory software vendors are famous for.

And no, it doesn't. People don't run mission critical applications off software that doesn't have some sort of support contract, the only exception being possibly apache because of it's insanely large and good track record. You just aren't in business.