No company in the world has a technology comparable to .net/WPF on any platform, let alone all major platforms. Microsoft is giving it away. Show me the evil.

Google et al are taking your data and I defy you to reach a human being on the phone or by e-mail. It's already plain this approach will prevail, at the expense of the entirety of human discourse being 20% paid-for. This is really nothing against Google but it is a far more serious phenomenon than anything of the Microsoft/Stallman era in terms of individual liberty, and of reality not sucking.