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Nope. Still skeptic. Not that I don't use the products. I use VSCode and Github. But I just know that MS current behavior is simply money oriented: it started
by sametmax 7y ago
Nope. Still skeptic.
Not that I don't use the products. I use VSCode and Github.
But I just know that MS current behavior is simply money oriented: it started exactly when they lost their top dog position in several important markets.
So now they have to attract people, clients, devs... They can't get away with insulting communities anymore. Hence they hired more friendly people, and told the ones they already had that now it was ok to love open source and make the world better.
It's great for us really, and we should enjoy it as long as it last. Currently Google is going toward the reverse trend, and is probably going to be the new Microsoft in 10 years.
Then who knows, maybe they'll do vice-versa all over again.
But it's not about the company core identity, it's about what's profitable. It will change when the wind turns.
I will believe the heart of MS changed when their attitude will have been mostly positive for a long as they haven't been in the past. So see you in 30 years.
- TremendousJudge 7y agoCompanies aren't people, they don't have an identity or a personality. That's anthropomorphism that benefits them by causing users to trust them as if they were actual people. They aren't good or evil; they are better seen as profit seeking automatons. I will never "trust" a company as if it were a person. I just take what they give me and use what I need.
- sametmax 7y agoIndeed. But all corporations started as small companies with a soul. We are just blind to the transition.