People in tech, including those on HN, are often prone to hyperbole (myself included). I've got a bunch of example topics: MS, the NSA, F/OSS, Google & privacy

People in tech, including those on HN, are often prone to hyperbole (myself included). I've got a bunch of example topics: MS, the NSA, F/OSS, Google & privacy, CISPA, etc. In each of these cases, there's usually some voices of reason (grellas, anigbrowl, tptacek, masklinn, gruseom, I'm looking at you) and a lot of people who treat the story as life and death. CISPA is the END of net neutrality. Google is the END of privacy on the internet. F/OSS is about what's RIGHT and what's WRONG and F/OSS is RIGHT and proprietary software is WRONG. MS SecureBoot isn't about addressing a well-studied security problem by Microsoft and the security industry, it's about PUTTING DOWN the Linux desktop. The NSA is the END OF ALL PRIVACY. I'm not sure what the reason is but people just overreact. So here's my take on MS. It's a software company. Use their stuff, don't use their stuff: whatever. The days when it was THE software company are over. If we don't ship you a compelling experience, use something else.