On: Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope

[felixmar]

I do not get the impression that Hacker News readers are anti-Microsoft. It's more that Microsoft is mostly irrelevant for a community interested in startups and web applications.

[fierarul → felixmar]

Indeed, I don't see that much anti-Microsoft people these days. Microsoft is mostly out of the picture entirely.

Paul Graham wrote something similar about 3 years ago so it's not a new deduction: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html