I doubt this. Back in the NT days, there really was a religious war of Microsoft vs everyone else. They really were seen as the evil empire, using anti-compet

I doubt this. Back in the NT days, there really was a religious war of Microsoft vs everyone else. They really were seen as the evil empire, using anti-competitive behavior to force crap down everyone's throats. A lot of people felt that way, including me. For me it was easy to buy an Apple to develop for Linux. Why? It was Unix, and it wasn't Microsoft. If Microsoft had sold the exact same laptop with exactly the same operating system, I would have refused to buy it. Remember the motto Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... if you've forgotten. I've matured. I laugh at myself. But I have a deep sympathy for the old Unix people that I saw when I was young who had spent a lifetime fighting IBM only to see IBM playing nice with open source and having trouble accepting it at face value. Because no matter how much Microsoft tries to change, I still have trouble seeing them as anything other than the company that they were back in the late 90s, early OOs. Give them opportunity, and I'm still on alert for when the "extinguish" bit is coming.