And, incidentally, I can demonstrate far more documented cases of actual outright THEFT of intellectual property by Microsoft from small companies, and the subsequent failure of those small companies. It was a deliberate business practice of MS and Bill Gates. He attempted it on Apple... and got caught with his fingers in the cookie jar. It cost MS $150,000,000 in 1998 in a law suit settlement in the Quicktime infringement case where MS got caught not even filing the "serial numbers" off Apple's stolen code... found embedded in MS's first release of Windows Media Player.
Do you think that Bill Gates was honest when he sold IBM a product he didn't own? And then cheated the actual owner when he bought it for a song and dance? How about using the access he was granted to the Apple Mac OS to develop Office and Word, under a non-disclosure agreement and a non-compete agreement, to reverse engineer many of its operational aspects to solve his problems with his initial offerings of Windows?
So, Wonder Warthog, do you buy Microsoft Products, or do you eschew products from this pirate organization? Or are you a hypocrite, boycotting only Apple products because it's easier to do so because you don't use them, and can crow about your superior moral stance?
I boycott the current Apple products (Ipod, Iphone) because they are closed, proprietary systems. I don't use Apple PC hardware, because I can get the SAME hardware from other dealers for less bucks. And I won't use the Ipad because I can get BETTER hardware, which does more, for less. I buy as few Microsoft products as I can manage, but if I want to do business, MS "is" THE business standard, so I don't have much choice in the matter. (and no, Linux is not an option).