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Trustworthiness isn't the same thing as honesty. The goal of Microsoft is not to be honest, it's to be trusted. The article is exactly what it claims to be.
by ouid 8y ago
Trustworthiness isn't the same thing as honesty. The goal of Microsoft is not to be honest, it's to be trusted. The article is exactly what it claims to be.
- lisper 8y ago> Trustworthiness isn't the same thing as honesty. It's also not the same thing as being trusted. There are many entities in the world that are trusted despite being neither honest nor trustworthy. (IMHO Microsoft is one of them, but they are far from alone.) > The goal of Microsoft is not to be honest, it's to be trusted. Yes, I get that that is their goal. My point is that they are trying to achieve that goal by being disingenuous and deceptive. (And they succeeded spectacularly.)
- tschwimmer 8y agoI think an important point is that trustworthiness and trust carry an element of relativity as compared to honesty. Honesty is pretty binary, but different groups can have wildly varying levels of trust. Microsoft probably has a very high level of trust with a senior corporate IT buyer (CIO) but low levels of trust with a hardcore GNU/Linux believer.