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Story: Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'

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Whenever an analyst talks about "religion" or "disciples... encircling Microsoft", he/she is probably doing the Redmond sock-puppet thing (again).

I agree with other commentators, it is obviously in Microsoft's interest to encourage FLOSS Developers to "focus on enterprise level applications", providing them with time to implement a new filesystem in Longhorn to "lock-in" the data of their customers/victims far deeper than it is "locked in" today.

And of course, Microsoft doesn't even offer competitive products in many of the "enterprise level applications". The companies whose license revenue would likley be threatened by such products (Siebel, Oracle, IBM) are Microsoft's competitors, and Microsoft would love to keep its Windows revenue stream and have the FLOSS software Development threat diverted to other companies.

And finally, either the Author or this analyst ignored the obvious fact that many FLOSS implementations have been justified by the key advantage of FREEDOM from "lock-in", not by cost considerations.

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