I Run Linux, and I Don't Hate Microsoft
Yes, you read the title correctly. I only run FOSS systems, including GNU/Linux, BSD, Open Solaris, Minix, GNU/HURD, and Plan Nine From Bell Labs. I'll even give a favorable nod to Apple hardware if I see it running FOSS software. But I am adamantly opposed to running a single byte of Microsoft code under my roof or associated with my business.
Yet, I don't hate them.
In fact, I'd be more than happy to download, burn to CD, and install a Microsoft system, and perhaps even give it a favorable review on this website. Unfortunately, this site is about Free and Open Source Software. So I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't do that.
Because that would blow away all of the recent hogwash in the news lately about how Microsoft really loves open source and has been sending us flowers and chocolate boxes and leaving us messages and how we're supposedly being such meanies for not loving them back. First Novell, Xandross, and Linspire, and now, after those sloppy advances, we have Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation, no less, saying we penguins need to quit being such teasing tarts and give up some respect already.
It would blow all of this hogwash back into the manure pile it came from, to ask that question that no one in this debate dares to utter:
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