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(Sorry, out of context) > Would I trust a "redeemed" Greg Gopman. Nope. Which is exactly the same reason why I will never trust Microsoft: even if current act
by gonvaled 11y ago
(Sorry, out of context)
> Would I trust a "redeemed" Greg Gopman. Nope.
Which is exactly the same reason why I will never trust Microsoft: even if current actions are okayish, what they did in the past has disqualified them for life.
- minimaxir 11y agoThat is not a good analogy. A company is not a person; the people in change of companies change, and in the case of Microsoft, very significantly over the years.
- gonvaled 11y agoA person is also not a constant thing, but anyway past actions have a lot of weight. I do not trust them because what they did, how they did it, worked for them. They'll try again (they try still now, with a lower profile) whenever they feel they'll get benefit out of it. Any company can do this, but they are the ones who have already done it, repeatedly. And I will never trust them for basically what you could call "revenge": I think they have significantly altered the path of progress on IT, and have basically destroyed an option which was open for a while at the end of the 90s. The world is very much for the worse because of them, and that crime can never be corrected, since the option is not open anymore, and will never be.
- zardgiv 11y agoCorporations are people, my friend.
- chris_wot 11y agoCorporate personhood is a convenient legal fiction but it's a myth that corporations hold all the same rights and responsibilities as an actual person. There are limits.