"It seems reasonable to assume the OSS community would use OSS technology for the distribution of their software. "
I would agree with that, had Mozilla been hosting their own webstore, but they weren't. They weren't really "using" anything. They were hiring someone else to "use" the software to run the web store. Most reasonable people couldn't give a rats ass what tool a third-party business is using so long as they can guarantee a certain level of service and protection. I don't see why an OSS developer should be any different, unless they were more interested in politics than business.
"What was baseless is the assumption that a job posting for MS-SQL implies use of Microsoft technology for the site."
It was a job posting for a DBA and it listed *ONLY* MS SQL server as a requirement. It doesn't take much to put two-and-two together here. In this case I was wrong and I admit it, but it doesn't mean that it was baseless - it certainly gives more of a view of what is important to this particular company than an assumption of the motives of one of its customers would.
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