I'm not really sure why this is hacker news. So Microsoft's hiring some marketers to look at OO? What did you expect them to do? I hate how the author drags

I'm not really sure why this is hacker news. So Microsoft's hiring some marketers to look at OO? What did you expect them to do? I hate how the author drags the old "they're infiltrating our open process" argument out again. Sun, IBM, etc., all profit from OSS and are given a pass. To me, the real question is this: given that OO is free, so what if anyone uses it? Sun's strategy seems to be to come up with a reasonable clone to MS Office and give it away. I don't understand what they're trying to accomplish: they're not monetizing it, so why does it matter if they're taking marketshare away from MS? And they're not even very good at that: they're mostly behind MS's featureset every release. So what's the benefit for them? Corporate goodwill?