[ Thanks to Uno Engborg
for this link. ]
“One of Microsoft’s special strengths is the speed and intensity
with which the sales team (right the way up to Bill, for government
and really big accounts) goes in whenever a defection is
threatened. As we noted last week Open Source is currently in the
counter-insurgency SWAT team’s crosshairs, with who knows what
discounts and pressures being deployed to nip rebellion in the
bud.“Who knows? Well, the would-be defectors, of course. What? How
does free server licences grab you? One defector who declined to
hock his soul to Microstopheles in exchange for absolute temporal
power in the IS department, writes [his story to the
Register]…”