Microsoft.

What really surprises me is that so many people are willing to forget that this is the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit.

For that reason alone the tech community should shun them. But just a few short years later and a couple of open source releases and we're supposed to believe it is all so much better now and the Microsoft of old should be forgotten.

Thanks, Microsoft for reminding us of your true colors.

In case you have trouble parsing this announcement: the 'between the lines' FUD here is that when using other cloud providers you could be sued by companies that have these scary things called patents in case it turns out you ar is infringing on any patents (nudge nudge, wink, wink, of course you are). But come and stay in my house and I will protect you against these nasty people.

Cue IV starting lawsuits against parties that in a pitch between Azure and say GCE or AWS decide to go with the latter?