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You are trying to defend Microsoft from these stories. But "Microsoft eats humble pie on OSS" is exactly the narrative they want out there. It gives them the co

You are trying to defend Microsoft from these stories. But "Microsoft eats humble pie on OSS" is exactly the narrative they want out there. It gives them the cover they want to embrace extend extinguish Linux and other major open source projects.

TimTheTinker 7y ago
> It gives them the cover they want to embrace extend extinguish Linux and other major open source projects. Were you alive when Microsoft reigned as the dark lord? The contrast between life then and now is so dramatic. They simply lack the power they once wielded over the world of computers and the internet - to everyone’s great benefit, including theirs.
- machinecoffee 7y ago
  >Were you alive when Microsoft reigned as the dark lord? Yes I was. I worked in that stifling environment when anything not MS related was dismissed out of hand. Where MS's own marketing exhorted everybody to replace their 'legacy' unix systems with e.g. the wonderful system of Biztalk, Exchange and IIS. Yes, constant vigilance so that they never regain that position again, as I'm pretty sure they desperately want to.
  - TimTheTinker 7y ago
    > Yes, constant vigilance so that they never regain that position again, as I'm pretty sure they desperately want to. I doubt Microsoft wants to reign as a dark lord again at the moment - rather, they're attempting to grow their business through use of open technologies, like Google back in the 2000's. Although if any MS products/services become too dominant, I have no doubt that (like any other big company in such a position) they'll fall to the temptation to exploit their dominance for more money and power. It's not Microsoft that's evil -- it's people and their capacity to be corrupted by inordinate power.
- cyborgx7 7y ago
  Lacking power is not to their benefit. You have drunken the coolaid all the way.
  - dang 7y ago
    Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? It would be good if you'd stop posting unsubstantive comments generally.

TimTheTinker 7y ago

> It gives them the cover they want to embrace extend extinguish Linux and other major open source projects. Were you alive when Microsoft reigned as the dark lord? The contrast between life then and now is so dramatic. They simply lack the power they once wielded over the world of computers and the internet - to everyone’s great benefit, including theirs.

machinecoffee 7y ago
>Were you alive when Microsoft reigned as the dark lord? Yes I was. I worked in that stifling environment when anything not MS related was dismissed out of hand. Where MS's own marketing exhorted everybody to replace their 'legacy' unix systems with e.g. the wonderful system of Biztalk, Exchange and IIS. Yes, constant vigilance so that they never regain that position again, as I'm pretty sure they desperately want to.
- TimTheTinker 7y ago
  > Yes, constant vigilance so that they never regain that position again, as I'm pretty sure they desperately want to. I doubt Microsoft wants to reign as a dark lord again at the moment - rather, they're attempting to grow their business through use of open technologies, like Google back in the 2000's. Although if any MS products/services become too dominant, I have no doubt that (like any other big company in such a position) they'll fall to the temptation to exploit their dominance for more money and power. It's not Microsoft that's evil -- it's people and their capacity to be corrupted by inordinate power.
cyborgx7 7y ago
Lacking power is not to their benefit. You have drunken the coolaid all the way.
- dang 7y ago
  Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? It would be good if you'd stop posting unsubstantive comments generally.