> When you're making a word processor you can be nonpolitical pretty easily, Microsoft doesn't get any heat about what users of Microsoft Word are doing with it

> When you're making a word processor you can be nonpolitical pretty easily, Microsoft doesn't get any heat about what users of Microsoft Word are doing with it. Child abusers and the KKK use Excel? Everyone knows Microsoft are just selling hammers. I think a lot of that is because Word and Excel were initially locally run and produced local files. Rightly or wrongly, when something is being hosted, people seem to associate the results with the entity that does hosting. To go with your hammer analogy. There is a big difference between selling hammers and running “hammers as a service” where people pay for the service to go hit something. This is one of the big reasons why models that you can run completely locally are so important. The tools that runs locally places more distance between the provider and the user.