Has Mark Hammond attained pariah status yet?

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

There is also the issue of the "Poisonous Community License Agreements" used
by Microsoft - in essence they bar developers from using any knowledge
gained from access to source under license Microsoft to implement *any* Open
Source software, not "merely" software in competition with MS's
implementation.

Odds are that if one were to develop for .NET, one would be screwed later by
Microsofts legal machine for disclosing proprietary information and
violating the NDA ...