Toshio

> "most(more than 80%) of your comments are on [...]"

I'm impressed.

You really took the time to perform an in-depth study of my submission/comment history, even figured out the 80% stat.

Slightly creepy but well-researched, kudos.

> "strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here"

This isn't about feelings, I'm just adding a data point to HN ranking algorithm.

The reason I enjoy being on HN is because of this community's mindset of "let's disrupt the big, established, old players". Seen from that angle, this submission is irrelevant because it's not about disrupting a big player, it's about perpetuating a harmful monopoly.

> Are you honestly saying that [...]

It looks like you are putting words in my mouth.

All I'm saying is that I follow a subset of news that's related to tech and startup. Which means I don't have an informed opinion on:

> how smart people with excellent computing could possibly do anything to help with significant problems such as HIV/AIDS or world hunger or food insecurity

or:

> the latest cat-photo startup

> they may be interested in using the 'most used office suite' again

Interesting twist, but I disagree.

If anything, startups would be interested in disrupting, not aiding, a staid, old, established player's contraptions.

Huh. I don't follow news about India/AIDS or BTC, but Tesla is a startup IIRC.

I don't follow the Samsung-vs-Apple news, so I don't understand its relevance to the topic at hand.

I cringe at the thought that some people consider this to be startup-relevant news (or even hacker-relevant news, for that matter).

I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why.

If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.

Breaking news: the Haskell Platform exists.

Stop teaching noobs to use Hugs, ffs.

> "Linkbait."

You are being very generous. OP is obviously either a PR hit piece paid for in full by microsoft, or indistinguishable from one.

> "why wouldn't you?"

Maybe because of my UNIX-influenced worldview which says that the things I'm using should be streamlined, do-one-thing-but-do-it-very-well, and should be "composable" as in ... via UNIX pipes, if we're talking about software utilities, and by putting them on the same network, if we're talking about computing devices.

Ahem, your post sounds so enthusiastic about a product that has proven to be a dud with consumers, that I'm missing some kind of disclosure from you. Therefore, let me ask you this: are you in any way affiliated with microsoft? As in, you know, employee, freelance evangelist or member of a benefit program such as MVP.

LATER EDIT: Yeah I looked at your profile, my suspicions were confirmed.