I'm a libertarian too and, as a separate issue, I also object to the Microsoft monopoly.
On the longer time scale I don't see FOSS as a competitor to Microsoft
so much as it is a replacement of the free enterprise software model with a
socialist software model. In my view the governments involvement in the
selection of either a free enterprise or socialist model is anti-libertarian because
the government shouldn't have that kind of authority in the first place.
Politics aside, Microsoft's base level business model will focus on subverting
any other control system, up to and including national governments. They have
the power and the power was given to them by indiscriminate consumption.

and install a pirated copy of Windows.
Isn't that what they expect to happen ?
Its the most effective marketing technique that Microsoft has.

This also makes me wonder.
If China can't manage the adoption of a socialist software model then who can ?

its bound to end up being one big cluster fornication.
Our cyberspace enemies should be rejoicing at this news.

This will highlight the fact that some men involved in the FOSS movement are sexist and it will make some men have greater empathy for the sexist treatment of women. On the other hand it doesn't need highlighting for those who give a crap in the first place and sexism has nothing to do with FOSS in the second place. In any case I'm okay with watching the FOSS movement disassemble itself over an unrelated political issue. Beats watching football or golf.

1. If you are a geek its OK to give gratuitous or unintended offense to other human beings of any ilk. Its part of being a geek. Ilk includes maleness and femaleness aka manhood and womanhood. More on that later.
3. Once you become a conscious or self aware geek its OK to enjoy offending people
especially if they are so self absorbed that they think that you are thinking about them
enough to sexually discriminate against them when it should be clear to anyone that if you are deep enough
into the FOSS movement to give a crap about it that you are so f*cked up with nerdiness that you
barely have any idea what sex is to begin with. (Look to your leader RMS for the most effective and
acceptable ways to annoy and give offense without intending too.)
4. About the sex thing. If you find people referring to you as a guy then you probably have a
genital which is a protrusion on the front of your body just above the crotch. This protrusion
is commonly referred to as a penis. (Its also a type of person but you already know about that.)
A few(not many) people who have penises also have a pair of balls hanging in a sack below
the base of the penis. Just to remove any remaining ambiguity, the penis is what you pee
out of and it occasionally swells up and gets stiff for no apparent reason. If you find people
referring to you as a woman then you will probably find that your nipples rest on top of soft mounds of flesh
that are larger than the mounds of flesh beneath the nipples of about 50% of the rest of the
population and you also probably have a second hole (commonly referred to as a vagina)
about an inch and a half from your anus. You probably do not have a penis or balls in a sack
even though people may constantly assert that you have a pair.