[ThrowawayB7]

> "...Microsoft. Who we haven’t mentioned in this story, but they hated Linux more than a toddler hates naps."

A lot of FOSS people think this but it's not really true. It was a thorn in the side of MS executives as a competitor, sure, but I never met anyone in the rank and file that could be bothered to hate Linux. More than a few of my colleagues played with Linux at home in the '00s. I cut my teeth on the commercial UNIXes so there wasn't anything interesting about Linux to me until it had caught up with them around 2010 or so.

[ronsor]

People mean Microsoft, the corporation, as a policy. Not every employee there literally.

[sunsetSamurai]

you're trying to rewrite history here, Microsoft used to be a well known linux hater, but linux became popular and they had no choice but to accept it. Remember the "linux is cancer" years...

[ThrowawayB7]

I was there a couple decades and you weren't.