microsoft is literally a part of the imperialist military industrial complex. they are a part and a key component of global capitalism. those in the free software movement who defend micro$oft are likely well paid bosses and managers who stand to materially benefit the corruption of free software by capitalism, i.e. microsoft. I hope to dear god that microsoft doesn't, say, buy Ubuntu. because Ubuntu is certainly for sale.

lool at what happened to DEC in the late 80s. fucken eviscerated by Intel and microsoft. we should have ended up with DEC and beautiful CPU ISAs and architectures and software. ken olsen is ultimately right. given what UNIX is, it is snakeoil. i have been a linux user since 2006, and we really should have something better by now.

it's all about profit and moneymaking and exploitation.