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

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>>Why do many large organizations tend to resist FOSS?  Discuss.
> FUD...utilizing the true definition....of the unknown.
>
> Even today there are lots of people in IT management who started after
> the beginning of Microsoft and Apple....and other "systems" companies
> who utilized closed source.  "Buying a solution" is all they know.

  But Jon, there's another aspect which is 'missing'.  His question
was a trick one.  One assumes that they actually DID 'resist'.  It
sounds to me like he just came out of the blue and 'dumped' a solution
using something unexpected.

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-- Thomas