Surely the buggy makers were annoyed. But the advantages to society by letting them be replaced has been incalculable. If it weren't for open source software the Internet wouldn't even be possible and Microsoft is attacking those who did this great public service. When one company controls all of our critical computer resources such as MS does and won't let anyone see what their software is really doing you would think people would be worried. But it seems that nobody is.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
When I first got involved with Linux 8 years ago we were in the ignore stage. We are definitely in the fighting stage now.