So, let's get this right....

MS will bend over backwards to let open source people write stuff that will talk to Word and Excel and Exchange etc etc.

....and it WON'T sue anyone (including the open source people) if they develop their own solutions for same.

...and it'll sell you a licence for the APIs covered by its patents at pretty good rates.

...and ....oh, hang on, rewind....

Anyone else see the flaw in this for the average free (ie - we don't charge you a penny) opens source project?