All: could you please not post to threads like this if you're hot under the collar and have passionate feelings for or against $BigCo? It leads to tedious flamewars with people snarking at each other, flaming each other, making generalizations about the other side, and making up accusations of astroturfing (for or against). All of that is against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. "Boo $BigCo", "yay $BigCo" fan-v.-antifan cage matches are not curious conversation. We want curious conversation.