[tills13]

I _hate_ people using "M$" un-ironically. It wasn't funny 10 years ago when it started and it's still not funny today. How can you take that one comment seriously with that "M$" part in it.

[peterwwillis]

That's cool. I hated Micro$oft for a while, for being a bunch of evil money grubbing assholes who made it harder to run the operating system I wanted, applied proprietary extensions to open standards in order to force vendor lock-in [nearly destroying the open web], and who leveraged PC manufacturer deals to tax us for software we didn't want. They literally called Open Source a cancer and lied about what the GPL specified to discourage use of the software. M$ was a monopoly, and all about the cash. It was never supposed to be funny.

Also, irony means suggesting the opposite. I don't know why anyone would use M$ ironically.

[rurounijones]

> How can you take that one comment seriously with that "M$" part in it.

Judge the comment on the merits of the data provided and opinion based on that and don't get hung up on a name?

"M$" may also be useful as an indicator of bias but again, it is not the whole comment.

[krisdol]

It started much longer than 10 years ago. On slashdot, it was pretty much the only way I've ever seen Microsoft referred to.