I see it like this 

Sengan Baring-Gould 
Sat Jan 03 at 10:04PM EST 
senganb@cyrix.com 

Microsoft owns the market because of its excellent
marketing. It plays as rough as it can - it operates
in the capitalist paradigm, and that paradigm says
that's ok: you win if you make money. A logical
conclusion within that paradigm is that your
solution must be adopted. 

Authors of free software work in a different
paradigm: the point is creating a nice piece of
software. Nice means useful, technically
challenging, aesthetically pleasing, and as solid as
you can. Within that paradigm money is only a
means, and not the end. A logical conclusion of
that paradigm is that the best solution should be
adopted. 

The 2 paradigms clash causing a lot of friction. In
the history of paradigms (eg Science versus
Astrology), the paradigm that delivers more power
to its users usually ends up being adopted.