Looks like Microsoft is always going to be Microsoft. People that think they have turned a new leaf and are all different and hip thanks to Satya are kidding themselves.

The only thing that changed is they got more effective PR. Or maybe there are just more gullible idiots on the net now, who are more susceptible to corporate propaganda that the average netizen was years ago.

true. Its even more scarier now that they try to play "the good guy". I preferred when they were honest about their intentions :)

There are SO MANY Linux distributions that overlapping a name is hardly a big deal (and the registration is not that big a deal either...as the article points out itself, despite the registration, there is a Linux distro also named Maui).

The Microsoft employee’s response was pretty bad, but in a company with hundreds of thousands of devs, one inappropriate response by a developer hardly says anything.

Edit: He’s not even an employee. He’s a Microsoft MVP. That’s like complaining that Red Hat is evil based on what a random programmer with a RH certification says.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Forever Microsoft.

By default you can't trust any for profit corporation. They will always do what is profitable over anything and everything else, as they are required to.