They almost made it to trustworthy, but observing GOOG set them straight.
We don't. Time to get off that train wreck of a platform!
There it is. The vindication I was after. I knew I wasnt just crazy for doing everything I could to minimize ms in my ecosystem. Personally, I think rms, gnu, and gplv3 are the way to go. We need to protect user freedoms more than developer freedoms.
It's not users vs. developers, it's users vs. vendors. The devs working for MS are just hired guns doing what they're told in exchange for a paycheck; they're not making decisions like this.
To the user the dev and the vendor is indistinguishable. Also, Nuremberg defenses aren't usually the most solid, but I see what you mean.
While I wouldn't view it from trust and mis-trust, I'd instead argue it's the company culture to act monopolistic. We've seen this hubris bite them in the ass on more than one occasion:
Windows XP -> Windows Vista
Windows 7 -> Windows 8
Xbox 360 -> Xbox One
It's endemic in their company, and that won't change unless the company's back is up against a wall (financially).