Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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and study economics. Here are some facts:
1) Bill Gates and Steve Balmer are NOT campitalists, they are technocrats at best
2) OpenSource ISN'T communist, in the most purist definition, OpenSource, especially GPL can be classified as perfect competition. Perfect competition is defined as having many players in the market with perfect information. Perfect information means that on one company has a information advantage over another. GPL ensures that there is perfect information.
3) OpenSource praises the individual and values their contribution more highly than the closed source model. For example, in Red Hat the provide migration services. Who makes the difference? the organisation or the people? of course, it is the people. It is the people who make the difference and not the organisation itself, where as the close source model assumes that all coders are equal and that any idividuality should be squashed at all costs.