Fairly interesting. The part I like best,
"...HP doesn't want to have to license it from Microsoft anymore, always having to wait for Redmond to make a move before HP can."
It's the logic I often point to as to why it makes sense to use open source software and, even more importantly, open standards: so that one does not have to depend on another company's *own* market state; so that there is a measure of autonomy. Open standards, which remove the problem of vendor lock-in, and open source, which grounds the development effort locally as well as globally, provide the groundwork for informatic autonomy--the kind that HP wants. It's not a merely abstract, academic issue. It's a market, business one, as well as a national one. It removes the shroud of fatal dependency and gives the freedom to act without the cost of waiting, waiting, waiting.
