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Is there a single large tech company that doesn't fuck over the customers of their acquisitions?
by manicennui 3y ago
Is there a single large tech company that doesn't fuck over the customers of their acquisitions?
- SSLy 3y agoHPE?
- crest 3y agoThey even fuck over their own customers by locking away documentation and firmware updates behind a support contract paywall.
- pjmlp 3y agoSadly, I have wasted many hours reading HP-UX documentation, and also hunting the Modula-2+ and Modula-3 papers, as per Compaq and DEC Olivetti acquisitions.
- flopsamjetsam 3y ago> hunting the Modula-2+ and Modula-3 papers, as per Compaq and DEC Olivetti acquisitions The programming languages? What's the story there, were they acquired?
- johnvanommen 3y ago> They even fuck over their own customers by locking away documentation and firmware updates behind a support contract paywall. I used to work for HPE on their OpenStack team, and getting support, even as an employee, basically required me to have a rolodex full of engineers all over the world. A tremendous amount of troubleshooting was just looking up who had committed code, then tracking them down when something blew up.
- ronsor 3y agoAs of late, probably Microsoft does it the least, unintuitively enough.
- hosteur 3y agoMinecraft users would disagree.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI just left my account to die, can't even be bothered to try to convert it to MS. It's dead, Jim.
- pulse7 3y agoAs a last resort, they can use TLauncher...
- doublepg23 3y agoEh, Bedrock is a much easier sell to my friends than Java was back in the day. Even the least technical manage to play together.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoRemember when two decades ago even the dumbest kid could figure out how to punch an ip address into teamspeak and CS1.6?
- doublepg23 3y agoI think you'd be a little privileged if you had a gaming PC and internet in 2003.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoI guess it depends where you live? In the Western would that should be pretty normal. Not that everybody had it, a lot of people just didn't care, but if you wanted to be online with a low-tier gaming rig it's not like that cost an arm and a leg. And people played CS on full-on potatoes back in the day. 512*384 low details software renderer with 15fps.
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- phyrex 3y agoMeta/Facebook. Look how instagram, WhatsApp, and oculus are doing. Even the stuff they ended up abandoning they cleaned up and open sourced (like Parse)
- to11mtm 3y agoIronically... Yeah. They have done a better-than-most job of trying to default to open (for all of their other failings)
- freedomben 3y agoMeta really doesn't get enough credit for their open source contributions and stewardship of important tech. Of course there are very real criticisms of Facebook and their engagement strategies and such, but LLaMa has been incredible, on top of things like React of course.
- kelnos 3y agoThey're doing well, but at least Instagram and WhatsApp are much worse for the end user than they were pre-acquisition. To the point where I've stopped using Instagram, and have moved as many of my chats off WhatsApp as I could.
- chefkoch 3y agoThey helped to divide society / politics and are a cesspool for conspiracy theories but hey they open sourced some stuff.
- signatoremo 3y agoMaybe not in the US, or in your bubble, but a lot of people still use FB to connect with friends and family, or their groups of interest. Many more use it for the marketplace, to sell and buy things. For them FB is an indispensable venue. As for helping divide society/ politics, have you paid attention to HN front page the last few days? Wave and wave of OpenAI posts, with huge amount of ignorant, uninformed, speculative, conspiracy driven, repetitive, divisive comments that got endlessly upvoted and promoted. That reflects who the HN audience is and what we are interested in. You may say that HN also helps divide society/politics. Yet you, and I, are still here.