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Exactly. The developers they can get to work for them are "useful idiots", whose work they then use to further screw over their main customers, who aren't goin
by Grishnakh 10y ago
Exactly. The developers they can get to work for them are "useful idiots", whose work they then use to further screw over their main customers, who aren't going to abandon them no matter what, and also bring in more developers to their platform and away from the competition. As long as these developers are easily and naively wooed by a bunch of BS talk about "the new Microsoft", they get to help MS with their evil shenanigans.
- voltagex_ 10y agoSigh. I don't even know how to start with this one. I'm a "useful idiot" because I'm interested in making PowerShell work as a proper Debian package, or because I might look into what's required to get it into FreeBSD? Seriously? MS is not a monolith, it's made up of lots of different people with different ideologies and different goals.
- nitrogen 10y agoI think the parent comment's point, with which you are likely to disagree but haven't fully addressed, is that even the best intentions of developers can only serve the ends of the less noble segments of Microsoft.
- voltagex_ 10y agoFair enough. I think that falls into the category of "what if someone does something evil with my code?", to which I don't really have an answer.