This author is the same idiot behind boycottnovell (https://web.archive.org/web/20070711171212/http://boycottnovell.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070711171

This author is the same idiot behind boycottnovell (https://web.archive.org/web/20070711171212/http://boycottnovell.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070711171212/http://boycottnov...), a campaign against Miguel Icaza, Mono developers, and Novell, for developing Mono (a free and open source C# / .NET implementation), and later for generally existing (along with anything inspired by C#, logically, and anything resembling the Windows Registry). Obviously all a conspiracy by the diabolical Bill Gates, who definitely has time for such important conspiracies, and his evil corporation M$, to "infiltrate" Gnooo Slash Linux and take over the world. Roy Schestowitz has yet to do anything positive for free software. But, rest assured, he probably doesn't have a real PhD. Edit: To be fair, Mono was kind of shit at the time, for purely technical reasons, and it was threatening to be used in ridiculous places despite that. That didn't happen in the end, again for technical reasons. It has steadily improved since then, and Microsoft's position around the Mono project obviously changed for the better. That, and Microsoft really didn't have trouble suing people for using Linux anyway (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-samsung-elec-settlement/microsoft-samsung-settle-contract-dispute-over-patents-idUSKBN0LD2LA20150209 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-samsung-elec-se...). So he's not exactly wrong, in broad strokes. Just terrible. In an alternate universe, perhaps Roy Schestowitz's army of neckbeards would be remembered for saving the day instead.