Seriously, could Microsoft work any harder to drive me away? People are going to look at their bottom line and decide this money-grabbing maximal-ism just make

Seriously, could Microsoft work any harder to drive me away? People are going to look at their bottom line and decide this money-grabbing maximal-ism just makes them greedy, unconscionable bastards. Of course, that's never stopped their juggernaut, before. For my part, watching this behavior, I'm all the more convinced that de facto UEFI control and the like need to be ripped away from them. They will exploit anything. The problem is, who can and will serve as a neutral steward -- of implementations and not just theory and maybe design?