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We owe a lot to the smart people working there

• fartcannon 4y ago
  • kjeetgill 4y ago
    Feel free to elaborate -- this is hacker news not script kiddie news. Excess cynicism aside, while I think there's always plenty to be critical of I think between Leslie Lamport, Excel, and Windows XP I'd say it's not all bad.
    • fartcannon 4y ago
      It's not cynical to dream of a world where giant brutal monopolies don't spew PR at every turn. Its optimistic. Like walking down a main street after they pass a no advertising law. Magical.
• dymk 4y ago
  What do we owe them? They already got paid. By Microsoft.
  • skohan 4y ago
    Yeah and they're not doing it for us they're doing it for them. MS is a corporation not some kind of NGO