“Life after Microsoft”
According to this article, Robert Scoble looked for blogs that mentioned the phrase “Microsoft sucks”, “I hate Microsoft”, or whatever, and would contact the blog author asking why they thought so.
Well, here is my take on why I do not like Microsoft:
1. The company is a convicted criminal.
2. Their sock puppets, the SCO group, have been involved in a long running attempt to discredit Linux and open source.
3. Their monopolistic behaviour (see point 1) sickens me.
4. Their blatant manipulation of markets sickens me.
5. Their blatant attempts to destroy their only viable competiton – Linux and Open Source – sickens me.
6. Their continuing ties to legacy code in their OS is an active danger to OS security.
Hey, Microsoft – if you are reading – stop trying to destroy Open Source, stop trying to destroy Linux, then maybe we can talk. ‘Till then, you are on the “naughty” list.
