Sadly too many people project their own values onto MSFTers and then go into denial or shutdown under overload when presented with even a fraction of the legal and moral transgressions.

Removing MS and its executives would see a great evil of this world will be removed. Other evils there are that may come; for Gates is himself but a servant or emissary. However, that doesn’t mean that what he and his cohorts have been doing is not harmful. Pick a metric — it’s that evil.

Think about an Olympic athlete. Who the heck would get up day after day after day and add so many hours of such dedication to a single item? There are sacrifices after sacrifices. They live very abnormal lives.

Humans are strange creatures.

the sound of your comment is, to me, an offensive one, you sound like a troll. However, there is a little bit truth in it – there should be more people to shoulder this MS investigation and coverage.

Regarding obsession – well, if Linus or RMS would not have been obessed with their ideas, even if Gates would not have been obsessed with his “Windows needs to rule the world and all human beings” idea, we would neither have FOSS and Linux nor entered into the Dark Age of IT with Windows (which we now seem to leave….)

So obsession to a minor degree is not only fine but necessary if you want to change something.