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"And it runs Office better than Linux or Mac" Yup, been doing that for decades. It's called "vendor lock-in". And its unethicality has been discussed comprehen
by sufehmi 4y ago
"And it runs Office better than Linux or Mac"
Yup, been doing that for decades. It's called "vendor lock-in". And its unethicality has been discussed comprehensively for decades as well.
And when countries tried to move into an open document format - they'll bully the country, using the strong arm of the Uncle Sam, until they're back to MS Office again.
So when people are amazed by Bill Gates' charities - I don't. His money comes from the sufferings of countries.
- unxdfa 4y agoI understand that corporations are bastards and built on foundations of the crushed skulls of children and involuntary human sacrifice but Office on the Mac is not a bad product and is improving. But the windows version has just been around longer and had more work done on it. And don’t get me started on LibreOffice - it’s buggy as hell. Even more than Office on a bad day I’ve met Bill. He wouldn’t be out of place among HN’s defective half: the dubious pro SaaS VC funded US university alumni…
- sufehmi 4y agoI wasn't talking about the product - I was talking about MS using the product to lock the whole world into its own =proprietary= format (so no one could reliably open & process it - and then others got blamed for it, not Microsoft), AND then aggressively attack those who try to escape from its lock, even countries.
- unxdfa 4y agoAll the protocols and standards are documented here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/main/ms-openspeclp/3589baea-5b22-48f2-9d43-f5bea4960ddb https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/main/ms-openspec...