I suppose that makes Drupal the anti-Microsoft -- or at least one example of the Cluetrain-driven paradigm diametrically opposite of the proprietary-to-the-hilt worldview from Redmond.

Of course, that whole angle doesn't sit well with Dries.

I'm not sure that I like being called the "anti-Bill Gates" -- it is not like I'm a modern hippy fighting windmills, am I?

Yes, but if Bill Gates is about proprietary licensing and centralized control and closed standards and owning the user, and Dries is about GPL and community development and open source and empowering the user, well, I think comparisons are only natural -- especially as Drupal gains in popularity and public notice.

Any question why we do our web development using Drupal?