Personally, I remember when the Halloween Documents came out: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ Amongst other things, they

Personally, I remember when the Halloween Documents came out: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ Amongst other things, they spelled out how Microsoft intended to 'embrace and extend' standards in order to break interoperability. If you want to know why people don't trust Microsoft, years later, have a read of them.