You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microsoft. How are we supposed to get our refund?

A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.

I think all of us appreciated that,

People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of people creates a better end result, ... For some reason, we forgot that when it came to developing software.

The important move would be to document all [Microsoft's] file formats and communications protocols, make the documentation publicly available, and make a binding promise not to sue or harass people who write open source software to interoperate.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?