I see that your response is almost balanced and fair. I say "almost" because I really believe that on the server space Linux has better functionality, and on the desktop the main issue has to do with proprietary "stuff" (Drivers, codecs, etc)
I particularly saw one very missleading fact: Open source is not anti capitalistic.
For some facts and my own ideas on this read:
http://rarsa.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-source-and-capitalism-some-people.html
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