"Other companies claim they innovate. Microsoft claims they innovate. Microsoft lies through their mediocre brutish OS-swiping ham-fisted competition-crushing khaki-loving teeth. And they don't even make computers. In fact, they don't make much of anything they haven't bought, borrowed or outwardly stolen. Just ask the (pre-Ashcroft) Justice Department."

He's right about one thing, though. A lot of the passion has been squeezed out of the industry.