Comments on: Gates to free-software makers: Keep the day job

Want support and technological advances? Microsoft's chairman says that's what commercial software makers do best.

[Goose]

hmmm

Cheap software, yet MS is charging an arm and a leg for theirs
What would MS be without open source? Where would they get all
their stuff? Who will they rip off?

What would MS be without open source?

Unstoppable. Their customers are sheep being led to slaughter. The "sheep" just keep giving their money to Billy and company, over and over again. It is sickening that so many people trust that man and his empire. Death to the king!

[taznar]

Who?

Same people they've been copying for decades -Apple of course!

[M C]

Gates to free-software makers: I fear you

Open-source developers have passion for their products.

MS is weighed down by many paid employees who work to simply keep their jobs.

Who has the recipe for success?

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Cheap if you're rich...

I suppose $200 for XP is cheap if you've got $40 billion. For those on the breadline, however, $200 is far more than they'd be willing to spend to use something that already works well with Win 98 installed.