Yeah, he's been employed to spread the word of Open Source and to educate the uneducated. What this says to me is Microsoft's employee's are too stupid to understand the ideology behind FLOSS :P.

open source is the future, maybe even a web-based OS, anything but microsoft.

open source may be the future, but commercial software will always always be there. that said, many users are too set in their ways to consider a new os. people hate change.

for example, my dad: i explained that we could install the leaked mac os on his pentium 3, and he gave me a disgusted look and said, "No thank you, I want my computer to run XP!"

one more bit of good news to go against MS maintaining its monopoly is that Google and Sun have teamed up to push Open Office and several other projects.

rust_slacker i just had to deal with this on a business level. for the past 2 years i have been supporting a company with a Whitebox3 web/e-mail server in the windows domain.

the owners husband has a bug up his butt to run nothing but windows. he wants to upgrade to win2k3 server small business (they only have 4 work stations, this is a complete waist of money) and exchange 2003 and wants the clients using Outlook 2003 instead of thunderbird.

before i took over the network i had to spend roughly 10-20hrs a week keeping viruses, spyware, etc out of that network of only 4 workstations and 1 server. now that i have things under controll (down to 4-7hrs a MONTH) they want to spend thousands of $$$ and i am going to over bill them for the install, configurations, upgrades, and then drasitcally increase my monthly service fee due to the extra BS i will have to contend with managing Exchange over my q-mail server.

more money for me, loss of proffit for them.