When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?
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lozz
12 years 37 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago
Proprietary competitors, too
It's not difficult to imagine Ballmer smirking and saying;
"Well.....if you'd have been prepared to pay for a proper M$-Office license you wouldn't have all this trouble. M$-Office is designed to work with other M$ products while this FOSS stuff is only for hobbyists."
Most proprietary companies would positively welcome buggy, insecure copies of Free Software giving FOSS a bad name.