This gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling.
Still, unless software companies support the OS by porting over their popular applications and writing new ones, it will be a niche product at best. Look at OS2, a much superior OS but no one was willing to support it to the extent it required because OS1 was such a painfull experience for them.
More examples can be seen in MS's anti-competitive practices that somehow got glossed over in the trial. When a real competitor shows up, Windows gets "upgraded" and the rival suddenly doesn't work because they weren't notified of the change. After awhile you get tired of the software breaking and just buy MS. I think you have to have been around awhile to have seen this as there just isn't the same level of competition anymore, but one big example is windows 3.11 a minor change that made it incompatible with OS2 when MS left its' partnership with IBM.