The idea, therefore, is that it's easier for companies to redeploy existing Unix skills and applications in the management and use of Windows servers, and to provide a migration path from Unix (and now, Linux) to Windows.
Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: Take a high-quality product people can get for free and convert it into a lesser-quality product people have to pay for. So far, it's worked like a charm.
What you have to provide next and what the licence says, we know not, as the registration page went into an infinite refresh loop in Safari. But presumably MS has tested it with major Unix/Linux browsers.
Those guys at the Register are SO dry.
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