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Unless I missed or forgot some major events I don’t think it’s fair to say that Microsoft and Google are on the same level of “evil”. Microsoft willfully broke
by brazzledazzle 4y ago
Unless I missed or forgot some major events I don’t think it’s fair to say that Microsoft and Google are on the same level of “evil”. Microsoft willfully broke the law to destroy their competition. On multiple occasions. They had well funded initiatives to destroy Linux and open source in general. They intentionally built software on standard protocols/APIs and then once they had enough market share they sabotaged interoperability. Microsoft was (and is) ruthless because Bill Gates was a fucking corporate terminator.
- saagarjha 4y ago> They intentionally built software on standard protocols/APIs and then once they had enough market share they sabotaged interoperability. …something which Google has never done, I'm sure.
- robertlagrant 4y agoGoogle seems to have done much more in the open source and standards space. E.g. buying and open sourcing VP8.
- fsckboy 4y agoall monopolies are bad by their very nature. If consumers have no choice, they get abused, regardless of whether it is clumsy and barbaric like microsoft, or deft and charming like Hannibal Google Lector.