Re:Maybe at a lower price? (Score 2, Interesting)

Maybe you shouldn't be such a tight ass and spend some money on software. The people who like to get there software for "free" and only for "free" are the people who will kill the open source software movement. As much as it is about lower cost software somewhere along the line somebody has to pay for the development cost of the software so programmers don't starve to quickly (well at least for now here is a good example of why http://www.golden-orb.com/).

How may /.'s have made financial contributions to open source projects (sure alot of you would have purchased a Linux distro, I have) or better still how many companies have you worked for that have made some financial contributions to the developers of the open source software they use?

As for the MS Office issue I would love to see an application like that for Linux, unfortunately OpenOffice is still go a way to go yet! Anyway I don't think Microsoft can separate it from the OS enough to do it :).