Meh, I'm with the people who says: who cares? Let people think whatever they want.
I don't like Microsoft. But I can't install Linux because I'm an idiot (and my mother is worse).
And whatever about "no Microsoft => no MSN => no MSNM => no MsgPlus!"
I'm sure that if there were no Microsoft, then Patchou would have had a Linux OS and made MsgPlus! for whatever messaging system there was, anyway.