Not news, though I'm glad to see you are beginning to understand what anyone with any actual expertise in this field has known for years. All of your recent posts amount to "Look, FOSS is not as socialistic as I believed it to be after I read Richard Stallman's website and some anonymous newsgroup posts." Hardly a shocking revelation.

John, its humorous you find the depiction of FOSS above realistic.

FOSS is not (and can never be) the kind of free movement its proponents espouse. Thats what those of us who find that FOSS can only sustain itself through formalized financial and organizational changes have argued for years- while FOSS supporters have turned a blind eye towards the increasing commercializion and emerging limitations of FOSS.

I find it amusing that as FOSS firms are getting more practical, FOSS movement rhetoric still gets more fantical and shrill by the day.

You are drawing a false distinction between "FOSS firms" and "FOSS proponents" - presumably because you want to prove that profit-seeking corporations like IBM have somehow been duped by a group of "fanatical and shrill" anti-free-marketers. What rhetoric are you referring to? Which specific FOSS proponents have claimed that FOSS is incompatible with profitability in the long term? If your answer is Richard Stallman and some random Slashdot commenters you found, don't bother replying.