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Peak HN, when we want to pretend that Google and Microsoft provide nothing useful to the world.
by thebytefairy 3y ago
Peak HN, when we want to pretend that Google and Microsoft provide nothing useful to the world.
- justinclift 3y agoEach of those companies does indeed seem to be a net negative.
- saagarjha 3y agoThat’s not quite what the comment you were responding to said.
- justinclift 3y agoWell, they weren't responding in good faith to what I said so DILLIGAF. ;)
- dzamo_norton 3y agoIt would take excruciating gymnastics to justify a claim like this. And I'm not a fan of either entity.
- justinclift 3y agoWell, what are the positives they bring to the world?
- achenet 3y agogiving people tools like Word/Docs, Excel/Sheets, etc that they can use to express themselves and calculate things? Providing email for people? Giving people "it just works" (albeit not as well as Apple's stuff) operating systems (Windows/ChromeOS/Android) that they can use without having to deal with the complications of getting Linux working (although you could argue in recent days Ubuntu does this as well)? VS Code? Creating widely used programming languages (C#, TypeScript, Golang, Dart)? Paying people to work on open source projects? Google search, which, while far from perfect, does still enable people across the world to easily access information that is useful to them?
- justinclift 3y agok. And you feel those things benefit the world more than the negatives yeah?