Bruce Perens and the OSI board

I am not saying that the executives inside of Microsoft are not out to try and keep their
monopoly at all costs. I am saying is that the implication that everyone from Microsoft is
verboten is wrong. I say this from the fact that I still get the "Oh you worked at Red Hat,
aren't they the Microsoft of Linux trying to taking away the GPL from people?" 8 years after I
left. 

No amount of explaining ever changes it for them.. and every time someone starts complaining
about companies in Linux they come out and say that Red Hat is the worst of them, blah, blah,
blah. The same for people who are anti-Novell, anti-FSF,etc. Its just that Microsoft gets the
most angry villagers. You are sure to get a whole bunch of pitchforks, torches, and angry
emails by raising the spectre that Microsoft is going to control XYZ. Heck I remember when the
rumour that Red Hat was going to be bought by Microsoft how much hate email hit the servers...
first from the Red Hat haters, and the others who hate Microsoft and thus sure that we were
all in it.