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Then there's other ethical developers. This is a company with a deeply scummy past, who did everything to throttle competition when they had the upper hand. Th
by ta1356547 5y ago
Then there's other ethical developers. This is a company with a deeply scummy past, who did everything to throttle competition when they had the upper hand.
They might be trying to change their image lately, still a hotbed of scumbags who learned from the best.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>This is a company with a deeply scummy past, who did everything to throttle competition when they had the upper hand. This applies to literally any billion/trillion dollar big tech company ever, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, Facebook even Apple and Google. They all abuse their market dominance at the expense of their competitors when they get there. It's literally the M.O. of any major corporation. Microsoft was just the first major successful big tech software company to make it there.
- netizen-936824 5y agoMaybe companies shouldn't be that big then?
- jb1991 5y agoWelcome to Europe.
- netizen-936824 5y agoDon't tempt me
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoIf you come to Europe can we please exchange jobs and wages? ;)
- netizen-936824 5y agoConsidering I work in academia it won't be much of a change, but the work is meaningful :)
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoHaha, nice. Though, a work colleague's brother was doing laser research in academia in Europe and got offered a 4x pay increase to continue his research in the US academia. Make of that what you will, but it seems like the US stil has no issues attracting top talent in some fields.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoVW, BP, Deutsche Bank, Airbus and especially LVMH and Nestle, would like to have a word with you. You're making it sound like the lack of major European SW megacorps comes from some benevolent voluntary decision on our side, when the truth is that Europe is full of unscrupulous, corrupt and exploitative megacorps like the ones I listed above, except in SW, since we missed the SW bus entirely due to reasons I will go into detail below, and so the US dominates that field entirely. Firstly, don't have the capacity to pump trillions of EUR into our stock market like the FED does and we also don't have the military capacity to invade any country that would threaten the EURO or our oil/energy markets. But most importantly, the US is a single market with 300 million consumers with a high purchasing power, making scaling of SW products and services much easier than in a fragmented market with about 24 different languages and many more different cultures and differing regulations, with some EU member countries having conflicting interests on many important topics, making scaling of SW products across EU members a nightmare if you're not flush with cash. Which is why we're full of thousands of small local companies that don't have any international leverage. And before anyone brings up ASML for the thousandth time as some silver bullet example for EU tech dominance, please note that ASML's golden goose, EUV, is a product of US Cymer wich ASML bough, and of Sandia labs research which ASML licensed, so the US has veto rights on what ASML can do with the EUV tech and who they can sell it to (spoiler alert, not to China).
- jb1991 5y ago> VW, Deutsche Bank, Airbus and especially LVMH, would like to have a word with you. Sure, but we're talking about tech firms (this is an article about Microsoft's place in the tech world). All the FAANGs are American. Big tech is American. edit: I see you edited your comment (many times) to align with this part of the discussion.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago>But most importantly, the US is a single market with 300 million consumers with a high purchasing power, making scaling of SW products and services much easier than in a fragmented market with about 24 different languages and many more different cultures and differing regulations, with some EU member countries having conflicting interests on many important topics, making scaling of SW products across EU members a nightmare if you're not flush with cash. Which is why we're full of thousands of small local companies that don't have any international leverage. And what stopped Japan from achieving what Europe couldn't?
- pull_my_finger 5y agoWell if everyone else is doing it, I guess that makes it OK...
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoHow did you come up with that conclusion from my statement? I explained why I don't trust any major corporation richer than God, as they're all guilty of bad practices and why you shouldn't trust any of them either.
- WJW 5y agoIs there anything Microsoft could do to gain your forgiveness or do you just plan on hating them forever?
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoThey wouldn't even if they could, so the question is meaningless.
- rainmaking 5y agoThey would probably be willing to parade Steve Balmer through downtown Redmond and yell "shame" at him every few steps. I think I could totally start overlooking IE6 if they did that.
- RockyMcNuts 5y agoin their most powerful days, they didn't dictate what software could run on their OS and tax developers 30% of their revenue to allow their software to run.