First, not one of the people I know who have any experience with Unix or VMS has had any experience remotely close to yours.
I took the liberty of doing a "find in forum" search on your posts. You have not contributed recently to any thread or forum that is not having to do with MS vs Linux or something similar. Each time you have been pro-MS.
Do you own stock in Microsoft? Are you employed by a company with a vested interest in seeing MS succeed?
Yes, and No. My ongoing attacks against linux are a result of the incredible ammounts of disinformation provided by posters such as Nick Danger, as well as my concern over loss of US trade secret technology to the world without compensation, or worst case being utilized in countries that might have previously suffered trade restriction.
Also, being employed in the tech industry, I don't feel that making anything we supposedly do 'free' is a good idea. And 'free' is a false promise anyway.