as a former autonomy employee who worked with the introspect product, I find this very ironic. No doubt some of the current folks that maintain the Introspect product are getting a kick of reading emails of former and perhaps even current executives.

My feelings exactly. I used to work with a guy who liked to work with gentoo. It took him a couple of days for everything to compile and get a working laptop, but if he feels that gentoo is best for his productivity, I have nothing against it. For myself, I have used a variety of desktop level operating systems, and after a while these fights that come along between the operating systems just seem comical. The author of the original article even felt guilty of using Mac OS X ! If there are things to feel "traitorous" about, it isn't about what OS to use. And I agree that that there are many standards that cross-over the multiple operating systems. samba / windows file sharing, even NTFS is inter-operable between Linux and Windows, PDFs, etc. This isn't like the days of Apple and AppleTalk.