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Well, Windows was, but that's not the point.

The parent comment noted that there was a generation who shunned Microsoft because of their corporate misbehavior. More recent generations of programmers have forgotten why that was, and Microsoft has, once again, successfully established a dominant position in the development ecosystem.

I fully expect that position to be leveraged for profit, and that would see a new generation, 25 years later, who will never trust Microsoft again.

Most things are cyclical.