...of his roughly 700 students in one class...
Can you effectively teach a class with that many students? That's a ridiculously high number.
Indeed, the open source movement eschews software freedom.
I don't agree. From your link, RMS says: "As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source." This is clearly saying that all free software is a subset of open source. Thus, open source does not eschew software freedom. Please explain the disconnect.
Microsoft gets to play both sides of the fence, because it also receives licensing fees for versions of Windows and SQL Server running in its rivals' clouds. But the Redmond company is increasingly relying on its own cloud revenue. Microsoft's commercial cloud run rate -- a projection of the annual revenue from products including Office 365 and Azure -- topped $14 billion in the company’s latest quarterly results, a new record.
They're swiping at the cloud revenue, not the Windows/SQL product licensing revenue.
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