[FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

[David Rysdam]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:33:29 -0400, "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> >But really, nobody got fired for buying "the standard",
> >i.e. what everyone else is buying.
> 
> People get fired because the project does not work...it makes little
> difference if the failed solution is "standard" or not.

I assume you dropped a "should" from the first clause...