Date: 07/16/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

If Microsoft were going up against other proprietary vendors in these cases, politics would not likely be an issue. One result is that Microsoft also ends up making political arguments in pursuit of its business objectives. And political activists become agitated on its side as well as that of open source, which leads to the open source=communism argument.

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