I think we are all in agreement, however, that MS is violating the standard... are we not?
With that as a given, do we Do Nothing? I don't think so; We shouldn't, by action or inaction, permit violations. Now, with that as a given, the question is How Do We Respond. At the very least, the commit sparked some interest and involvement, even if much of it was worthless and clueless. I like the idea of using that as a "door-opener" for an Open Letter. Ideally, in that letter we explain the problem and the rationale for the commit, we also explain how to *remove* the "offending" commit (even though it's pretty ez of course) and that we are keeping the commit in place until such time as MS changes course, but we are aware that it could affect adversely affect "innocent" users and so we want to make sure that they have all the info they need to remove it. The idea is to restore the transparency... If we had made a more public "splash" about this, maybe it wouldn't have created such a storm of uncluefull backlash; it's the idea that we did something "sneaky", I think, is what some people find (understandably) upsetting.
