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But Scott Hanselman thinks it's all about MS killin' our pappies.
by zwerdlds 8y ago
But Scott Hanselman thinks it's all about MS killin' our pappies.
- smacktoward 8y agoI appreciate Hanselman and his work a lot, but that answer riled me as well. He seems to not understand that Microsoft's underhanded behavior in the past actually did kill a lot of promising, pioneering companies -- Netscape, Stac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics) and Digital Research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research), to name just a few off the top of my head. It's one thing to argue that they don't do that sort of thing anymore, but quite another to pretend they never did it in the first place.
- deogeo 8y ago> It's one thing to argue that they don't do that sort of thing anymore Even if you argued that, you'd be dead wrong - they won't reveal which Android patents they use for extortion, till very recently pushed for adoption of the FAT32 filesystem so they could extract patent fees from that. Now that those patents have expired, they're doing the same with ExFAT, all while lobbying against open document formats, and deliberately making their own as difficult to work with as possible. That's all just from the top of my head, without even going into Windows 10.
- atesti 8y agoWhere did he comment on this issue?
- zwerdlds 8y agoThis is the article I am referencing. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx