which Microsoft lackey posted that story? (Score 1)

Funny, the draw of "free" software and other incentives is exactly how Microsoft established themselves as the defacto standard for OS, word processing, and spreadsheet software. They paid for reviews, and offered "other incentives" to corporate customers and system integrators. (Lest any one think "kickback" is implied by the above, of course it is not, that would be slanderous!) This sounds an awful lot like the disingenuous "grass-roots" FUD campaign Microsoft has been running the past few years, xcept applied to Linux instead of the Justice Department.