From the comments, it often seems that there are a lot of HN readers who really like Windows as an OS. Is it true that "distaste for Windows" was a motivating

From the comments, it often seems that there are a lot of HN readers who really like Windows as an OS. Is it true that "distaste for Windows" was a motivating factor behind Viaweb? For me, Windows was an enormous itch. I scratched it with UNIX. Thank you, Redmond, for the motivation.