Bernard Lang writes:
 >   I have no figures, but I would expect that the total R+D investment
 > in free software far exceeds anything that MS is doing.

Sure.  Microsoft has only written four text editors that made it into
production: edit, notepad, wordpad, and word.  Anybody at all worthy
of the term 'hacker' has written their own text editor.

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