Comment Re:Not the only reason..... (Score 1) 409
Not that I disagree with you, but I think you miss the point.
The "someone to sue" argument is about CYA in a catastrophic event. It's the same argument as "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
If there's some massive security breach in a Microsoft product that exposes all of your customer information, that would be perceived as Microsoft's fault. You could try to sue, and probably lose, but the perception is still that it's Microsoft's fault and they're industry standard so you did nothing wrong. Same thing happens with something open source, and your company takes the blame for using "that cheap piece of garbage."
It's pointless and unrealistic, but it's not really supposed to be. Nobody expects that to happen, but they see the price of proprietary software as a kind of insurance against such events.
Perhaps someone could improve acceptance of open source by directly selling actual insurance against that kind of thing....