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How can someone still trust MS ?
by tdkl 10y ago
How can someone still trust MS ?
- askyourmother 10y agoWe don't. Time to get off that train wreck of a platform!
- arca_vorago 10y agoThere it is. The vindication I was after. I knew I wasnt just crazy for doing everything I could to minimize ms in my ecosystem. Personally, I think rms, gnu, and gplv3 are the way to go. We need to protect user freedoms more than developer freedoms.
- Grishnakh 10y agoIt's not users vs. developers, it's users vs. vendors. The devs working for MS are just hired guns doing what they're told in exchange for a paycheck; they're not making decisions like this.
- arca_vorago 10y agoTo the user the dev and the vendor is indistinguishable. Also, Nuremberg defenses aren't usually the most solid, but I see what you mean.
- cronjobber 10y agoThey almost made it to trustworthy, but observing GOOG set them straight.
- adrenalinelol 10y agoWhile I wouldn't view it from trust and mis-trust, I'd instead argue it's the company culture to act monopolistic. We've seen this hubris bite them in the ass on more than one occasion: Windows XP -> Windows Vista Windows 7 -> Windows 8 Xbox 360 -> Xbox One It's endemic in their company, and that won't change unless the company's back is up against a wall (financially).