[SamUK96]

I think the OPs context for "good company" is "good company _for coders/hackers_". You can have a company behaving in an anti-trustworthy way, but their software still be _good_.

Also, their antitrust violations was due to the Windows OS and anti-competitive behaviours, if i'm not mistaken? If so, then this is not really relevant to their software or OP's post, but more their business approach of locking out competition, which is a question of legality and economics.

[hvs]

Part of the anti-competitive behaviors were anti-Linux and open source which I feel is "bad for coders".

http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/