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I mean, I totally agree with you. I think the paranoia is a little overboard. However, MS has engaged in some pretty nasty business practices over the years, as was revealed by the evidence in the Comes vs. Microsoft case, as well as in the well known Halloween Documents. We can only speculate as to what else they were doing that we didn't find out about. I guess what I'm saying is that though people are being a little overboard in this case, everything MS does should be looked at sceptically until such time that they prove themselves to be a more positive corporate citizen.

Now, that said, I think the most telling part of the article is right in the headline:

"more market share for the Windows platform by allowing interoperability with open source technologies such as Linux," (emphasis mine)

That's a pretty interesting admission of their general strategy to lock out competition by not allowing them to inter-operate. Don't you think?