The peon actively chose to work there and participate in Microsoft's attempts to dismantle any competition in any field they enter through highly questionable tactics.

So Machiavellian huh?

Such cynicism and paranoia just breeds an equal amount of such on our side. It makes it that much harder for those of us who wish to engage and do good in the OSS community.

I'm not really sure what you could possibly expect after MS spent most of the natural lifetime of this industries senior developers' behaving badly.