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Microsoft already bought NPM so there's precedent.
by dalfonso 6y ago
Microsoft already bought NPM so there's precedent.
- TheDesolate0 6y agoYeah, but do we REALLY want M$ to control, github, npm, node, rust, python, and ...
- vmchale 6y agoWe still have Idris and ATS.
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoConsidering that half of all prominent functional PL researchers are hired by Microsoft Research I won't be too confident about that.
- coldtea 6y agoM"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back...
- webmaven 6y ago> M"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back... You realize that we're potentially just one leadership change away from returning to the 'bad old days', right?
- oblio 6y agoYou're missing the big picture. In 1999, Microsoft's revenue was at least 10x that of the closest competitor. It controlled the client (desktop) and was working on controlling the server, too. Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc didn't exist. Amazon was much smaller and in a different niche. Apple was trying to not keel over in 2 months. We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed.
- webmaven 6y ago> We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed. The world has changed, but I didn't mean "the bad old days when Microsoft had a stranglehold over the industry" but just "the bad old days of an evil Microsoft". Their market power isn't relevant to whether they are a bad actor, only to how large their impact is as a bad actor.