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Name me any other big company with great ethics and all nice and fluffy. For example look at how Google had started and what it has become. Not really trying t
by FpUser 7y ago
Name me any other big company with great ethics and all nice and fluffy. For example look at how Google had started and what it has become.
Not really trying to protect Microsoft here but them companies are all the same, just different degree of "success".
- bpfrh 7y agoI think that is exactly the point. The argument is that if a language is developed/mainly contributed by a single company there is an inherent risk of that language being suddenly discountinued or lacking features that are needed by other people/companies. At least that's how I understand the critics against microsoft in this case.
- meddlepal 7y ago> lacking features that are needed by other people/companies. Funny how nobody seems to give pile on Google for how it handles Go here...
- FpUser 7y agoI am an older fart and my preference for my own products is C/C++/Delphi/FreePascal for servers/desktop and JavaScript for web front. I program in many other languages as well but mostly because clients require them. In the latter case it is a consulting job and the last thing I care about is how their favorite languages are managed. It is their choice and I am here to take their money, not to judge their preferences. Advising client to use particular language instead of their favorites is straight road to disappointment.
- cyphar 7y agoI don't know where you got that impression -- every new Go proposal document posted to HN garners a significant amount of Google criticism. The most recent example I can think of is the fairly widely-argued criticism of the "go mod" proxy. Not to mention all of the criticism over Google's consistent mishandling of community concerns.
- machinecoffee 7y agoIt's hard to be nice and fluffy in a market where there's a lot of competition, but there's degrees. When you deliberately attempt to sabotage other people's software that has to run on your OS, but competes with an MS Product (e.g. Lotus vs Excel) then it's stepping over a line. Thanks goodness for Linux and the web (and later mobile computing which MS failed to dominate) to pull us away from the brink of an MS monoculture.