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I do remember this story about Munich going for open source and then switching back but I don't recall any side story about MS lobbying for opening headquarter

by pndy 3y ago

I do remember this story about Munich going for open source and then switching back but I don't recall any side story about MS lobbying for opening headquarter in the city or offering discounts. That's what brave search served me when I enter the keywords so excuse me for choosing the source - sadly, the sites that do PR for the companies pretending to serve news, leaks, reviews are all around us. And honestly, it's not really surprising that MS lobbied - they managed to do the same in Poland too many times in the past. My sister starting computer classes in the high school was given a pamphlet with instruction how to register an account in (back then) Windows Live ecosystem, how to use mail and create a blog there, and how great SkyDrive is for storing your files.

johnea 3y ago
This is also related to M$ providing windoze source to China, in order for china to be able to implement their own encryption (allowing gov backdoor). https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-windows-code/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-window... In addition ot governments' concern for security, I'm am amazed that corps happily use s/w tools that routinely exfiltrate data. This includes gmail, outlook, teams, ST's CubeIDE, cloud storage and many many more. If you were a company that was a majotr competitor to M$, would you be OK hosting your executive strategy meetings on a M$ or Goggle meeting platform? When the EULA says they can mine your meeting? And offering these tools in schools (where "free" licenses are provided) only locks the next generation of users, including s/w engineering students, into the M$ platform. It's basically tax payer funded M$ training. I'm shocked (shocked I say) at the number of young s/w engineers I work with who are hopeless outside of a windows desktop. As you mention, I also certainly hope that the current conversion away from M$ will sustain, and influence other agencies and companies to migrate away...
- ripjaygn 3y ago
  https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m

by pndy 3y ago

johnea 3y ago

This is also related to M$ providing windoze source to China, in order for china to be able to implement their own encryption (allowing gov backdoor). https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-windows-code/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-window... In addition ot governments' concern for security, I'm am amazed that corps happily use s/w tools that routinely exfiltrate data. This includes gmail, outlook, teams, ST's CubeIDE, cloud storage and many many more. If you were a company that was a majotr competitor to M$, would you be OK hosting your executive strategy meetings on a M$ or Goggle meeting platform? When the EULA says they can mine your meeting? And offering these tools in schools (where "free" licenses are provided) only locks the next generation of users, including s/w engineering students, into the M$ platform. It's basically tax payer funded M$ training. I'm shocked (shocked I say) at the number of young s/w engineers I work with who are hopeless outside of a windows desktop. As you mention, I also certainly hope that the current conversion away from M$ will sustain, and influence other agencies and companies to migrate away...

ripjaygn 3y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m