If TCO, Total cost of ownership or is operation, is really the most important thing as M$'s Ballmer says, while claiming M4 really is cheaper on TCO, how come his staff members states that the free software is a threat to Microsofts economy?

>A Microsoft Corp. official yesterday questioned how the software industry could survive if users are getting software for free through open-source.
"For-profit software companies will struggle for a business model against free software, said Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jim Gray. He served on a panel last night on software trends, XML, Web services and grids at the Software Development Conference and Expo West 2004 show in Santa Clara, Calif.

On of them is not being honest. Who is it?

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