[ Thanks to Facundo
Salom for this link. ]
“For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions,
Microsoft’s Bill Gates has personally bought the leading
open-source desktop project. Saying he ‘was sick and tired of
open-source eating away at his profits,’ the world’s richest man
decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy
OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of Microsoft
acquisitions including several erstwhile competitors, a
considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small
governments…”