[PunchyHamster]

Well, no, they still acted based on the original ego/pride, they just changed blogpost to look different.

I mean, reason of "we don't want to be tied with direction MS takes" is good enough, not sure why they felt need to invent reasons and nitpick some near irrelevant things just to excuse their actions

[shevy-java]

Yep, agreed. I think this would have been the better reason too, but anyway - I also don't think it is so important either way.

The big problem still remains: corporations control WAY too much in general.