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Quite a change, I remember when Microsoft could kill software just by announcing it intended to develop a competing product. If you had told me then that one da
by zxcvbn4038 6y ago
Quite a change, I remember when Microsoft could kill software just by announcing it intended to develop a competing product. If you had told me then that one day I'd be using a Mac for daily work I would have not believed it.
- djsumdog 6y agoWe should view MS with scrutiny due to their history (trying to compete and kill Linux; the SCO bullshit, etc.), but they are the underdog in this particular case and the market has changed quite a bit. I wouldn't think of Microsoft holistically. That being said, this isn't the underdogs vis big players. These are big players, taken on other bigger players, and just kinda incidentally helping a lot of the smaller players ... for now .. but this could just as easily turn again if one of them gets back on top.
- robertlagrant 6y agoMicrosoft will tear down competitors by building just good enough alternatives and giving them away free/cheap. See Teams vs Slack/Zoom, Github vs Gitlab, etc etc. Nothing has changed. They have almost no alternative but to behave this way.
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- pkaye 6y ago> the SCO bullshit What is the relation of the SCO lawsuit to Microsoft?