This, that and the other thing but BG's says:
"It's simply false that open source has any great benefit in terms of reliability or security."
"The idea that people's altruistic contribution will somehow evolve into the best product is wrong."
which would seem to validate the argument that he doesn't know what he's talking about, or, more likely, is whistling past the graveyard. His win2k and USD4 billion have hardly produced anything comparable to the value of perl, apache and even linux. Some small amount of GUI smoothness, but have you ever tired to fix a winxx box? Sure, enough (heck most) people don't (they just buy a new one - he's not stupid, nobody should be saying that) to keep him in the largest house in upper WA state but doesn't make him right.

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