Then you surely have a laundry list of examples from the last 10 years where MS showed the same anticompetitive nature that they had in the 90s.

Yes, people keep bringing up VSCode all the time, but fanboys are gonna fanboy.

And Windows, that one obscure product from Microsoft that people here keep forgetting about.

I try not to drink the Kool-Aid either on Microsoft's side (again, they are not necessarily my cup of tea), but the prevalence of the people with the "Hey! Remember that Steve Ballmer called Linux a cancer? Micro$$$hit!!" attitude sucks my energy dry.

who at microsoft said open source is unamerican

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+at+microsoft+said+open+s...

one of the results:

Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

https://www.linux.com/news/weekly-news-wrapup-microsoft-clai...

from 2001.

well, gosh, I feel sorry for those American Linux developers of that time. I guess they were unAmerican, according to Allchin. if they were of this time, i guess they would have been deported by ICE.

sorry for the victim now ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-48lNCrmqxA

Well, for starters: Linux is of Finnish origin.

Linus Torvalds might be a U.S. citizen today, but during the first years of Linux he was certainly not thinking U.S. values and that someday his biggest userbase would be there.

> Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

Yeah, typical Ballmer-era.

> he was certainly not thinking U.S. values

Damn. I wasn't sure if you were trolling above and now it's clear that you were.

yeah!

jfc.

what a pompous, fake hipster mentality he has.

I looked him up, via his HN profile:

here is his About me section, at the bottom of his blog's main page, 2 https://www.ivanmontilla.com/

I found it so funny and hypocritical that I highlighted some of the phrases below, (in italics). :

------------------------- About me

Ivan Montilla

I self-define as a challenger of the status quo.

Usually, I question trends. Normalcy is to be avoided. Some of the greatest opportunities lie where no one else is looking. I’m more of a niche markets guy.

My interests are ever-changing, but I’m currently interested in financial markets technology. I’m also passionate for software performance.

I do develop some software, but not professionally. I’m more of a power user of programming languages. I see it as a craft, both engineering and some form of art. ---------------------------

if that's the case, you must not have had much energy to begin with.

Kool-Aid and tea can do that to you :)