> they even invented a whole ecosystem, .NET, designed to draw a hard line between Microsoft users and non-Microsoft users<p>I guess this wasn't written last week; the author gets to update that part with the recent developments with regards to the .NET foundation[1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/projects" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/projects</a>