Techies hate Microsoft not mere mortals, the reason Microsoft is hated is because they are greedy.
There is no real reason for their Licensing structure other then they can. What was the original cost of connecting to the first Arpanet machines? Microsoft is buying the White house, to avoid law suits and to take out open source. Greed
In January Microsoft was caught buying Bloggers (Maybe Samurai has a new laptop) with laptops to speed up their evaluation of Vista. I hope the Acers had six partitions for each variant of Vista ! Greed
Microsoft?s team of top dog lawyers is busy as we zpeek making other companies pay for Linux components they say are theirs. Maybe you can not patent some thing that was already their. Greed
Richard Matthew Stallman launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system; he also developed the original Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger the year was 1983
Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows, originally a graphical extension for its MS-DOS operating system the year is 1985.
Pay attention many top dogs are admired and loved by the dog pound, your Microsoft is top school yard bully, argument is missing a component, bullying is why people hate bullies