The presenter of these web pages believes Microsoft to be an immoral and dangerous organisation, who's business practices and conduct in the sphere of software development, and especially their products, represent a serious threat to mankind's spiritual and technological advancement.
Already Microsoft's practices and products have turned the global computing and network environment into a hell of limping, bloated, unreliable, overcomplicated, untrustworthy and downright insulting code. Furthermore, by their emphasis on legal and marketing extortion rather than quality of software, Microsoft have corrupted the entire commercial software environment with the evils of legalistic thinking, and acted to strongly inhibit the free development of innovative software.

The seriousness of Microsoft's crimes is far greater than most understand. In any technological society, computer operating systems are an element crucial to many aspects of social viability and progress. We have no historical precedent for this, and so it is not widely understood. Yet it is true - the quality and features of the predominant OS will have wide ranging effects on a society. The importance of a good OS to our society is comparable to the quality of education, the existance of a stable currency, and fair government. By producing the miserable and limiting systems that they have, Microsoft have greatly weakened our society's ability to deal with its many other difficulties. This situation cannot be allowed to continue.

Consequently the author wishes to firstly: avoid any association between the author's work, and Microsoft, its agents and works. And secondly: to do whatever is possible to inconvenience Microsoft and its agents, with the intent of obstructing Microsoft's progress towards world domination.
However, things being how they are, that's a tall order. And no, some of us haven't switched to Linux yet, much to our disgust. No time, too dependent on our old DOS tools, too tied to compatibility with others, the usual excuses. Besides, even Linux isn't the OS we dream of. The day will come though, when code developed in the spirit of truth, freedom and co-operation will supplant the MS monopoly, and the last line of Microsoft code will be cast out from our systems.
And from your systems too, for there are better ways to programme, finer and more honest ways to build the tools we all depend on. When those ways arise (as they must if the world is to live), then shall the poverty of Microsoft's spirit be clear to all. So too the crappiness of their code.

A detailed discussion of why Microsoft must be stopped, exactly how it can be stopped and even completely eliminated (without recourse to legal restrictions or government intervention), and how the world software community can organise to produce a trully capable and universal free OS, is detailed in the Everist Manifesto

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Finally, here is where we get to the actual finger:-

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