Richard Who?

[rjack]

Microsoft's general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform 
strategy Bill Hilf and InformationWeek:

"InformationWeek: In order to participate in communities like that, how 
do you cut through the muddle of the Richard Stallmans of the world and 
overcome the popular resistance, and also cut through the resistance 
that you've gotten from people like Red Hat who you might want to 
partner with?

Hilf: We just had a bunch of our global account managers in with us, 
people who handle our super big customers, and they said, these 
customers don't even know who Richard Stallman is, they don't even care. 
They've chosen Linux or Apache or open source in general because of a 
few simple reasons: either price, or functionality, they want a more 
modular system or they want something that has a smaller footprint, 
there are certain needs that they have that are satisfied by that type 
of software."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=203100965
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