[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.

[nextaccountic]

The devs weren't, but

https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca...

Microsoft messaging was very clear at the time

[shimman]

Might want to schedule an appointment for a neurologist because acting like MSFT wasn't anti linux is revisionist history that borders on medical intervention.

[PygmySurfer]

I was there, too, and I remember all of the FUD from MS. I remember the Halloween documents, MS funding SCO’s lawsuit, etc. MS saw Linux as a threat, especially in the server space. The goal was to stomp it out, like they did to Netscape.