Microsoft get schtick from people who know what they are talking about not because of their previous monopoly-abusing, security-insensitive ways, but because of

Microsoft get schtick from people who know what they are talking about not because of their previous monopoly-abusing, security-insensitive ways, but because of their _current_ privacy-invading, data-harvesting, lowest-common-denominator-accepting approaches to everything. No amount of contributions to other projects is going to overcome that, nor should it, since it is possible to do some things well and others poorly. The (awful) analogy certainly doesn't even hold: my late-2009 BMW is still going strong without a hint of anything beyond routine maintenance, yet according to this screed it should be crap...