I cited reasons I deal with every week that are reasons why I won't take the word of Microsoft at face value and you cite a blog that basically says some people

I cited reasons I deal with every week that are reasons why I won't take the word of Microsoft at face value and you cite a blog that basically says some people inherited the MS hate without reference or personal experience. The HN responses to that blog when it was published are very instructive compared to the reaction today.[0] I just checked and that condescending blog post hasn't enabled me to print from my office. You know what the IT guys told me? That I should run Microsoft Windows in a VM to be able to print. This is at a large Australian university. The operating system of one of the fastest supercomputers in the southern hemisphere, down the road, is Linux. I am writing software to run on that machine but but in my office I can't even print from Ubuntu. Seriously? Microsoft is a corporation not a charity, the managers and directors have incentives to make a profit for the shareholders. Even without a track record, or the Department of Justice investigations and the numerous leaks we've seen, it's not like Microsoft should be trusted off the bat in the first place. Additionally, beyond the things I've mentioned that I currently face, I've been programming since the early 1990s and I lived through the damage that Microsoft did. I didn't mindlessly inherit a distrust of Microsoft. I'm not that much younger than the guy who wrote that blog; I watched it all go down in realtime. Returning to the point, when I see a Pied Piper blogger saying that Microsoft is "the Future" of some open source project that's ok. But when they haven't even got their implementation running on a non-Microsoft platform I think "maybe we should wait until they've got it running on at least one other platform before declaring anything is 'the Future'". Is that unreasonable? Maybe the blogger should have picked a less outrageous headline. And it is outrageous, it's got people on Reddit saying &yet have "jumped the shark"[1] and others saying "I thought &yet was smarter than this".[2] I am not even going that far, I am just saying they should lay off the hyperbole, given the history of Microsoft. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281283 [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3z302e/the_future_of_node_is_in_microsofts_fork/ https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3z302e/the_futu... [2]https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/3z303d/the_future_of_node_is_in_microsofts_fork/ https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/3z303d/the_future_of_...