> Is this voting brigading / shilling or just normal behaviour of groups trying to suppress dissenting voices?
Neither. (If anything, perhaps the assumption of malice on the part of people who disagrees with you is what smells like Reddit)
The dynamic is something like this: The comment gets up-votes because nothing is easier than hating on Microsoft, and down-votes because it isn't actually insightful at all. You can squint at any action by any company in just the right way and make it look like it's part of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". The comment essentially boils down to "Microsoft has done bad things in the past, so they're probably still doing them" with precious little in the way of actual analysis.
Neither. (If anything, perhaps the assumption of malice on the part of people who disagrees with you is what smells like Reddit)
The dynamic is something like this: The comment gets up-votes because nothing is easier than hating on Microsoft, and down-votes because it isn't actually insightful at all. You can squint at any action by any company in just the right way and make it look like it's part of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". The comment essentially boils down to "Microsoft has done bad things in the past, so they're probably still doing them" with precious little in the way of actual analysis.