You get the idea. Take a breath, Chuck. It's clear the lack of oxygen is fogging your logic. Microsoft, for instance, appears to be betting the farm on .NET, if what's about to happen with Visual Basic is any indication. The new version will have different forms and run-time engines, both of which will be incompatible with previous versions.
Properties have new names or disappeared altogether, and features like threading have been added.
When a company is ready to lay the corporate cash cow on the line as Microsoft seems prepared to do, you know it means business. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat. Freely sharing information is bad and will destroy the country. But what Allchin really seems to be begging the government to do is give Microsoft a helping hand because he apparently believes the company can't compete with open source in open markets. As you'd expect, Microsoft spinmeisters kicked into high gear, explaining what Allchin really meant was that the GNU GPL constrained innovation and that he really, truly, sincerely loves open source.