<story><title>Linus: &quot;Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease&quot;</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christopherolah</author><text>For the most part, I agree with Linus. MS shouldn&apos;t be excluded, or hated solely because it&apos;s MS.&lt;p&gt;But, that doesn&apos;t mean they should be welcomed with open arms, either. MS has done some nasty stuff to us (OOXML, FUD campaigns, patent threats, et cetera). I recognize that companies are large and fluid, but they should still be held accountable.&lt;p&gt;MS has recently decreased their evil_count in my books, but they still have a long way to go...&lt;p&gt;With companies I trust, I  ``trust, but verify&apos;&apos;. With MS, I ``distrust until verified.&apos;&apos;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtf</author><text>You (and plenty others) need to stop anthropomorphizing Microsoft and painting them as some kind of single sentient entity. The reason they can be unpredictable is because they&apos;re so freaking huge. Even the strategy on their own products doesn&apos;t make any sense most of the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linus: &quot;Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease&quot;</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christopherolah</author><text>For the most part, I agree with Linus. MS shouldn&apos;t be excluded, or hated solely because it&apos;s MS.&lt;p&gt;But, that doesn&apos;t mean they should be welcomed with open arms, either. MS has done some nasty stuff to us (OOXML, FUD campaigns, patent threats, et cetera). I recognize that companies are large and fluid, but they should still be held accountable.&lt;p&gt;MS has recently decreased their evil_count in my books, but they still have a long way to go...&lt;p&gt;With companies I trust, I  ``trust, but verify&apos;&apos;. With MS, I ``distrust until verified.&apos;&apos;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redcap</author><text>Which is the normal job that the code gatekeepers do anyway.  For any piece of code that wants to swim upstream to the main repository, it gets checked by the respective maintainers along the way.&lt;p&gt;Linus trusts these people to do their job, which sounds fair enough to me.</text></comment>