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Computerworld > Taking a cynical view of open source

"Open source is not a movement; it's a religion. It is a set of principles and practices that let everyone share non-existent or semi-existent intellectual property. Remember the Communist Manifesto: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It is this generation's Woodstock."

Written by Howard Anderson Framingham, who is:

"the senior managing director of Yankeetek, a Cambridge, Mass., venture incubator. He is also founder of The Yankee Group and the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007anderson.html

The Yankee Group is the FUD arm of Microsoft, and home to that other Microsoft Shill, and generally stupid cow, Laura Didio.

Update: 25th Jan 2008: Welcome CNet and Inq. readers.

According to avid Yahoo'er, Amanda Kerik, Yahoo seems to have developed a policy of censoring answers in their "Yahoo! Answers" service, if that answer contains a suggestion to use Open Source alternatives to Microsoft software.