"All for-profit corporations are evil."
Correct, but they have not all been sued for anti-trust!
"They're nothing more than conspiracy theories."
Did you read the Wikipedia article on EEE?
"I'm seeing a lot of unreasonable paranoia here."
You can call it unreasonable all you like, I still feel MS is not trustworthy
and history is on my side. It is not paranoid if history justifies the
concern. I'm seeing a lot of unreasonable naivete here.
"There might even be other benefits for either side that I missed."
Yes. There are pluses and minuses for both sides that you, and all of us,
have not figured out yet.
It is wonderful that you have this win-win attitude. Bear in mind that the
advantage universally mentioned here is that more people will move from
Windows to GNU/Linux. That is not something MS wants, even if it makes
things a little easier for their developers.
MS has been developing software for forty years without making a GNU/Linux
distro an appendage. Despite the fact that for most of that time, many of
the most useful utilities were available. Why is easier access to these tools
so critical all of a sudden?
It isn't paranoia to ask that, it is common sense.
