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Not sure if it's bought or organic, but no other company gets the response Microsoft gets. The smallest triviality get praised, the biggest flaws get rationaliz
by okasaki 7y ago
Not sure if it's bought or organic, but no other company gets the response Microsoft gets. The smallest triviality get praised, the biggest flaws get rationalized away. Like, people here were going wild when they added UNIX line-ending support to notepad.
- alk2S 7y agoAgain the truth gets downvoted. Even Apple or Google are criticized more these days. People basically seem to pretend that M$ is run by Stallman himself.
- pessimizer 7y agoThey employ a lot of people directly, and a lot of people are employed in their ecosystem. I'd deny that this is exclusively for MS, though. Every large company has an army of employees that come in to explain how things actually are. On HN, this happens just as often for every medium-sized company; the only companies who absolutely get bulldozed when they do something worth getting bulldozed for are tiny, because their defenses just get shouted down by the employees of competitors.
- jodrellblank 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - "Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing".