Microsoft would then be competing on a level playing field with an organization of volunteers and commercial distributors who would have a higher-quality, completely compatible product everyone could get free.
Open source is good for generic solutions, but the value is in off-handed applications.
These won't be open source. Australia Post wants to know if you are impotent, suffer from dandruff, and the brand of tampon you use. It also wants to know other intimate information ranging from credit card details to how much soy milk you drink. Several speakers Tuesday hinted at a sinister alliance of pharmaceutical companies and health professionals to prescribe the drugs for unruly school kids. Einstein allegedly used De Pretto's insight in a major paper published in 1905, but De Pretto was never acclaimed, said Professor Bartocci of the University of Perugia.