Yeah, I understand those arguments. I also don't see how Microsoft is 'shitting on humanity' by not following someone else's standards. Are you advocating that if a bunch of people decide to do something, everyone has to either do it that way or they are 'shitting on humanity' and violating our 'rights' as human beings? That's what I was specifically targeting with my comment. The idea that every decision a company makes that isn't in keeping with some sort of 'open community' is wrong by default, and massively damaging to humanity.

As to THIS comment of yours, I find those arguments more reasonable, but I really don't find much fault in Microsoft's recent behaviors. They are making a huge amount of push into being more open with their source code and supporting open standards. They are never going to (probably) be AS open as some Linux distribution, but they are hardly the EEE evil behemoth they used to be. You bring up HTML5 specifically - as far as I am aware Microsoft is fully supporting this with Project Spartan (or whatever they call it now - Edge?). So what's the problem? Why would you bring this up? Yes, in the past they royally fucked things up with IE, does that mean we should never allow them to redeem themselves ever? And the OpenGL stuff - okay, that was fucking ages ago. Yes, it was shitty, and yes, I remember those times. No, I am not going to grind an axe about it forever. I am not going to say that Microsoft does 100% great work 100% of the time, but I really don't think they are a negative force in software. You can refuse to let go of the past and hound Microsoft to the ends of the earth, criticizing everything they do by default, or you can encourage their shift towards more open behavior and hope the trajectory continues. I would love to see Visual Studio running on Linux within the decade, integrated with Git more thoroughly and so forth, and it looks like that's where they are going. They are always going to have some closed-source software, and it will probably often cost a lot of money, but if it works well and accomplishes the goals it claims to accomplish for end users, I don't really care if it has the blessing of some community somewhere.