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Yes? You can work decades in many careers without touching a Microsoft product. Ut more importantly, you have no right to Microsoft products, and it regularly
by Zetice 3y ago
Yes? You can work decades in many careers without touching a Microsoft product.
Ut more importantly, you have no right to Microsoft products, and it regularly blows my mind when people try to argue otherwise.
Besides, if your beliefs are so incompatible with society that they exclude you from holding down a job, that belief becomes a pathology, not a conviction. Understanding how to operate successfully in society is a critical part of being an adult.
- toast0 3y agoAt least in my corporate experience, it's hard for IT to avoid the pull of Exchange + Outlook. And it's hard to work at a company when you refuse to use email.
- Zetice 3y agoHard is not impossible, and if you want to put strange moral constraints on who you work for, that's your cross to bear.
- salawat 3y agoInteresting. So riddle me this. Microsoft goes to great lengths to court primary education systems to instill themselves as the "taught software stack". You say no one has any right to Microsoft's products... Then does that not run into somewhat of a public contradiction when public education systems shove it down students throats? In point of fact, it sounds like the publically taught option should be exclusively GPL or other FLOSS software offerings, because contrary to your assertion, every student does have an implicit right to those as a public good.
- Zetice 3y agoNo, in no way at all is what you just described anything resembling a "contradiction". If you've used Google Docs or Libre Office for more than 5 seconds you'd know that. If you want to nationalize Microsoft, petition your congressperson to do so.