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To be fair, Microsoft has plenty of bad rep, stemming from decades of abusive behavior, to recover from. Also, a megacorp is not a person (no matter what the l
by depressedpanda 6y ago
To be fair, Microsoft has plenty of bad rep, stemming from decades of abusive behavior, to recover from.
Also, a megacorp is not a person (no matter what the law may say).
Being abusive towards individual developers should not be tolerated, but leveraging fair or unfair criticism towards an amoral entity? Eh, whatever floats your boat.
- Closi 6y agoSignal isn’t an individual developer, so what about the sort of comments highlighted in the original article? Or is it just 'be nice to developers in small companies, but you can say anything to developers in big companies'?
- alisonkisk 6y agoMicrosoft declared war on free software first, pursued that war for many years, and never made amends.
- zymhan 6y agoidk man I got a foam Tux with "microsoft <3 linux" on it so clearly it's all water under the bridge \s