@teratology @animeirl

> I agree with your point, but the fact of the matter is that free or libre software isn’t accessible to the general public

That's kind of a separate problem, but it's a problem that is possible to blame on Microsoft, who spent years trying to kill Linux specifically, but also Digital Research DOS (Microsoft's first big anti-trust lawsuit), Netscape (their second big anti-trust lawsuit, this time solved with campaign contributions rather than lawyers), the whole TPM debacle, and they are still doing their damnedest to make sure that Linux doesn't boot.

> Until we bridge those gaps we can’t expect the average person to want to maintain their own systems,

I don't expect them to, but my point wasn't how to solve that problem, it was that "Microsoft has adopted $x" is on par with "Google has adopted $x" or "Facebook has adopted $x". (I ignored Go for years because, despite Ken being involved, it was Google.) To make matters worse, Microsoft themselves have a terrible track record on security. Using IE to view a website was like yanking the lid of a needle disposal box and sticking your dick in.