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I had a serious dislike of MS under Ballmer, and every single one of your examples in that post was under his reign. But the argument that "they used to be bad,

I had a serious dislike of MS under Ballmer, and every single one of your examples in that post was under his reign. But the argument that "they used to be bad, so they still have to be bad" is just silly. Ballmer may have screamed "developers" on stage, but he was the one who lost them - which cost them dearly (mobile, cloud). Shareholders and the board pushed him out for that reason, so the new management had no choice but to sail a completely different course - which they did. It's no accident that their new CEO is the guy that was heading the Azure division, which is effectively selling Linux. But yes - it's still a company that will act in it's own self-interest, as any company will, and right now, that aligns pretty well with playing nice with the opensource community. That could change - in the future, so some caution is always a good idea (but that's the same for Google, Apple, Amazon, ...), but today, I have little issues with MS's attitude today towards opensource. Tomorrow, we'll see. That said - I don't mind them buying github and I like that people are actively looking into alternatives, github is simply too big imho, and too many things just expect git = github, which sucks too.

sametmax 8y ago
Did windows 10 stopped shipping ads and spywares ? Or orce update (and sometime locking my PC for 30 minutes then erase my grub for even more fun) ? Did skype turned back great, and P2P again ? Did they revoked their abusive patents ? Did they start to adopt open standard for new products ? Did they quit the Business Software Alliance ?Did they stopped shipping root TLS certificates from dictatures so that they can basically intercept any of my communications ? Their updated terms of services are a treat: https://professional-troublemaker.com/2018/03/25/microsoft-bans-offensive-language-from-skype/ https://professional-troublemaker.com/2018/03/25/microsoft-b... If you disable telemetry in Windows, the OS __still__ calls home: https://social.nah.re/@alex/99699321529592263 https://social.nah.re/@alex/99699321529592263 MS prompting his users to not think too much about what it's doing : https://shelter.moe/@fenarinarsa/99472223904930838 https://shelter.moe/@fenarinarsa/99472223904930838 Bitlocker sends you private key to microsoft (and questions about it, said they were to be trusted, but you could request deletion individually if you wanted): https://www.undernews.fr/libertes-neutralite/windows-10-vs-vie-privee-des-points-problematiques.html https://www.undernews.fr/libertes-neutralite/windows-10-vs-v... I have sane doubts about this new microsoft. We got another new microsoft every year. I have this argument every year. And since I do see they are getting way better at PR, I think that now I just miss worse scandals because they deal with them much better.

sametmax 8y ago

Did windows 10 stopped shipping ads and spywares ? Or orce update (and sometime locking my PC for 30 minutes then erase my grub for even more fun) ? Did skype turned back great, and P2P again ? Did they revoked their abusive patents ? Did they start to adopt open standard for new products ? Did they quit the Business Software Alliance ?Did they stopped shipping root TLS certificates from dictatures so that they can basically intercept any of my communications ? Their updated terms of services are a treat: https://professional-troublemaker.com/2018/03/25/microsoft-bans-offensive-language-from-skype/ https://professional-troublemaker.com/2018/03/25/microsoft-b... If you disable telemetry in Windows, the OS __still__ calls home: https://social.nah.re/@alex/99699321529592263 https://social.nah.re/@alex/99699321529592263 MS prompting his users to not think too much about what it's doing : https://shelter.moe/@fenarinarsa/99472223904930838 https://shelter.moe/@fenarinarsa/99472223904930838 Bitlocker sends you private key to microsoft (and questions about it, said they were to be trusted, but you could request deletion individually if you wanted): https://www.undernews.fr/libertes-neutralite/windows-10-vs-vie-privee-des-points-problematiques.html https://www.undernews.fr/libertes-neutralite/windows-10-vs-v... I have sane doubts about this new microsoft. We got another new microsoft every year. I have this argument every year. And since I do see they are getting way better at PR, I think that now I just miss worse scandals because they deal with them much better.