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And why an ethical alternative can't appear in the world where Microsoft exists?
by self_awareness 3y ago
And why an ethical alternative can't appear in the world where Microsoft exists?
- benterix 3y agoBecause the whole history of Microsoft is based on the EEE paradigm. And now because of inertia it's almost[0] impossible to move away from it for any org that has been using their products for years. [0] "Almost", because I know some large orgs that finally managed to break away, but it wasn't easy at all.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Because the whole history of Microsoft is based on the EEE paradigm. As opposed to the likes of Meta, Apple, Google who operate on the peaceful cooperation and charity paradigm? Does it look like to you that the other companies got so dominant by not using EEE?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoIt does not appear to me that Google does EEE, no - certainly not in the way that Microsoft did.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago"appear"
- blackoil 3y agoTheir entire Android / Play Services maneuvers were textbook EEE.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoBecause of a "dominant market position". Nobody says "can't appear" or says anything about a literal monopoly or literally not exist (or whether butterflies are made out of butter); that is just short hand and how language works. The point is that any alternative, ethical or not, is much too easily stifled in the current environment. Allowing competition to actually happen would be better.