My theory is the tech crowd that dominates the FOSS ecosystem consists largely of people that want to be seen as being knowledgeable, rather than actually knowledgeable.  The ‘hate Microsoft lol MS Bob’ routine has been handed down from pretender to pretender with the original person who made up their own mind on the subject long since gone.  It’s easy to do, gets you geek cred and you really don’t have to worry about accuracy as nobody is really going to be against you.  You end up with all of the vitriol but none of the understanding or context.  They completely fail to understand who is being evil now as they simply lack the ability to form an idea for themselves. Sure webapps/mobile/newtech may kill Microsoft, which seems to be the cause of the cheering, but the replacement is an order of magnitude worse.  But how are you meant to try to look clever on Slashdot if you have to actually understand technology, history and context?