What a strange one sided arguement. As someone else replied how many of the millions of users is this going to apply to .... a very small number.

Business users should have a corporate licence and there are many options, nearly all of which have a single product key, therefore the security side of things will not effect them, or they have a software leasing agreement (OVS for small/med or Enterprise Subscription for larger corporates) again this will not affect them.

For software developers / testers / reviewers etc etc they should sign up to technet/msdn where they can use the MS software in an almost unlimited fashion as long as it is in a pre-production/testing enviroment.

As far as linux users having to pay for software they don't want .... should Microsoft care ... nope not if you're wearing a buisness hat.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a Microsoft fan boy but claiming Paul Ts views are one sided when yours so clearly so clearly are is more than a little cheeky.

I work in the industry an industry which in part was formed on the back of MS ... are they perfect ???... nope far from it (multiple versions are a pain in the backside I agree !!) but there are other companies charging far more for vastly substandard products ...

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