Microsoft doesn't understand that if you piss off enough people over the years, it's hard to get respect back quickly. If you haven't followed the anti-trust c

Microsoft doesn't understand that if you piss off enough people over the years, it's hard to get respect back quickly. If you haven't followed the anti-trust case, you won't understand. For years, Microsoft treated others in the personal-computer space as enemies to be vanquished, instead of colleagues to be collaborated with. They used every trick under the sun to destroy other competing developers' works. And then came the big browser wars, and once again they did the same. On a broad level: Microsoft refuses to "play well with others". While you are playing apologist for them, their minions are busy undermining open-source software, and trying to scare the European regulators into avoiding OSS. On a side note: someone I know just designed this t-shirt; I think he's taking orders: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamp3/4777497224/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamp3/4777497224/