>  "Hey, we have all this super-secret data and documents which are
> absolutely vital to the survival of our company. Let's make ourselves
> completely dependent on the software, proprietary formats and restrictive
> licenses of a third-party company who we have absolutely no guarantees
> about and who could one day change any software and licensing to anything
> they want on a whim.

I would far rather trust MS with that than a group of voluntary workers.  MS 
has a brand name to protect and shareholders to please, they are not going 
to do anything stupid.  On the other hand, one day the main developers may 
decide they don't have enough time to continue with some open source 
project, or the community might lose interest, etc.  From a business POV MS 
is far safer bet for the long run.

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