Professionalism...I think when it comes to certain companies we need to take a step back and decide whether to take the red pill or the blue one.

When I was in college Microsoft was computing. I tried hard to ignore what the free software community was talking about until I started running into problems. I wanted the freedom to share software with whomever I wanted and a for-profit company beholden to shareholders saw things differently. Oh, I tried to ride the fence with Cygwin, Perls like Strawberry, etc. But eventually I realized that it wasn't worth it and made the switch to Linux unless I absolutely had to use Windows. And in those cases I was not an enthusiastic participant.

So I don't agree that anybody here on Perlmonks should be chided for pointing out that Microsoft has not been friendly to the free/open-source community and the FSF has as recently as December of last year asked for continued pressure to be placed on them for their activities.

That, to me, is professionalism.

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In reply to Re: Win32::Netsh tests repaired (-: by InfiniteSilence
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