> I have always been a firm believer of the open source movement and I stopped using Micro$oft a.k.a. M$ products twenty years ago. I never agreed with the monopolistic view that this company pursued for years without really benefiting the customer at the end. Today my opinion about Microsoft a.k.a. MS has changed.<p>If I had to judge the author basing on the post, i'd say it was one of those people willing to say "Micro$oft" just for the sake of it, in order to say "look at me, i'm different, i am a special snowflake that uses gnu/linux".<p>Well, Microsoft is playing a lot nicer towards open-source nowadays, mostly because it wants a large fraction to come from services and not from products anymore.<p>But keep in mind that Windows is still closed and proprietary and the same applies for Office and many more software products.<p>In particular, look at the "Terms of Service" page:
(<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389" rel="nofollow">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389</a>)<p><pre><code> Manner of use. You may not:
1. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or work around technical limitations in the Services, except to the extent that applicable law permits it despite these limitations;disable, tamper with or otherwise attempt to circumvent any mechanism that limits your use of the Services;
2. rent, lease, lend, resell, transfer, or sublicense any Services or portion thereof to or for third parties, except as explicitly permitted herein or in license terms that accompany any Services component;
3. use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement; or use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Microsoft service, or the network(s) connected to any Microsoft service, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of any Services.
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I mean, come on, reverse engineer, work around technical limitations, that is literally the base of free software and open source.<p>It's nice to say "I <3 open source" when you're not reading the license.