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Re:Ask HN: what does Microsoft sell that you can't get for f... by giblet on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @06:27AM (#1668514)
I think the point was that startups, without a million lines of VBA and friends (terrifying), may get hooked on non-MS software because it's free/cheap.

So in X years they'll be rocking their Palo server and a million lines in to OpenOffice Basic (also terrifying), wondering why more people don't use Google Wave v2.

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