This really struck me as funny. Funny in the sense that someone who apparently does not understand that OSS allows for free enterprise at its purist. Yes, many Open Source apps and the OS LInux are given away. But never mind Novell, IBM, RedHat and others who do in fact, pay American tax dollars.

Internet satirist Shelley the Republican has embraced Microsoft Windows, barely 10 days since publishing a tongue-in-cheek diatribe that painted the open source community as a bunch of communist hackers.

Shelley side kick Tristan wrote a weblog that asserted the free, open source operating system Linux, a rival to the omnipresent operating system sold by US behemoth Microsoft, was the product of a communist plot to overthrow American capitalism and had been gleefully exploited by terrorist-at-large Osama Bin Laden…. Source: The Register

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