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Story: FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'

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The position adopted by Microsoft all through is nothing new. The tactics of every PC leaving the shop floor loaded with windows and killing innovation by adopting it into the windows plarform and making it not interoperable are only too well known.

On top of all this, he is awarded the knighthood by the Queen. Time magazine gave a befitting citation. He is "the Philanthropist par Excellence".

What if he is exploiting the corporates? He has thrown back a good chunk of that money to the poor and needy which otherwise would not have been available.

But all the above arguments are true when we talk in terms of the money. All these and many other justifications would go out of the window when we consider the imapct "the Hitler of digitalspace" - an epitah awarded by opensource enthusiasts; have on lost opportunities for corporates and governments alike.

By turning their back on the immense opportunity offered by the Open Source movement, we are losing out on wonderful opportunities

It is high time that we understood the writing on the wall how much knowledge is contributeing to the economy of today as corraborated by recent articles appeared in leading Business Magazines of the world, dissecting the calculation of GDP and how investments in R&D and IT is rarely factored and the resultant skewness of the resullt on the performance of the leading econmy of the World.

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