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I'm still hanging on to Microsoft centralizing Skype, Apple trying to smother mp3s, and Googling killing (your favorite side project here). Follow a company lo
by brownbat 8y ago
I'm still hanging on to Microsoft centralizing Skype, Apple trying to smother mp3s, and Googling killing (your favorite side project here).
Follow a company long enough and they'll break your heart.
Also, we old geeks really know how to hold a grudge, especially if it involves a protocol or standard.
- itworker7 8y agoI agree with that. And remember before Microsoft was the evil empire... IBM was the original evil empire (yep, holding on to a grudge is fun)
- parvenu74 8y agoAnd without funding, they all die. GitHub gets a Daddy Warbucks to fund them now and fear of what could be is causing so many people to lose their minds. Microsoft acquired another non-open-source company two years ago — Xamarin — and dropped the price to use it to zero immediately and then open sourced the stack as soon as the lawyers gave them the all-clear. The co-founder of Xamarin, Miguel de Icaza, is no idiot and certainly not a sell-out. If he’s convinced this is a new Microsoft you can trust, what’s your objection?