Oh, the tactics did offend people. And still do. But it was always a small number of people that cared about software freedom.<p>The Microsoft consent decree was about restricting browser choice by shipping their own browser as default and claiming it was unremovable. By contrast, today Apple idevices not only ship with a browser but ban all competing browsers (via the ban on run-time compilation effectively banning JIT compilers). Apple have total control over every application that is allowed to ship on the platform and take a 30% cut.<p>Google are responsible for Android, which is Free software to the absolute minimum they could get away with by law. It relies on millions of lines of GPL&#x27;d code, yet for most phones it&#x27;s quite hard to get a rebuildable source tree that even includes all the kernel drivers, and if you do it may be prohibited from loading by a locked bootloader.