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Werent the munich government employees quite happy with linux, but microsofts lobbying with their headquarters got them to switch back?

Slothrop99 6mo ago
Were they? Sounded like they stuck with some terrible old version of OpenOffice ("brokenoffice"). Users don't really care about the OS, its the apps.
WaryByDesign 6mo ago
I'm not aware of Microsoft's economic footprint in the Munich region, but I doubt it's significant. The complaints that lead to the several-reversions-to-Windows at the time, as I recall, were all around "citizen sent me X, can't open X" And those are all addressable issues, but not without significant know-how and funding.
- LtWorf 6mo ago
  > I'm not aware of Microsoft's economic footprint in the Munich region, but I doubt it's significant. Perhaps be aware before explaining everyone how things really are?
  - WaryByDesign 6mo ago
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    - earthnail 6mo ago
      I've never seen a user replace all their comments with "[Yeah, if I'm just gonna be down-voted to oblivion regardless of my participation in the comments, good luck with your 'meaningful discussion'}" making it impossible for others to read their original comments. If this now becomes a trend I feel like there may be a need to change the rules around editing.
      - atherton94027 6mo ago
        @dang is it something on your radar? Lots of people do this on Reddit and it makes some threads unusable.
        dang 6mo ago
        @dang doesn't work - I only saw this by chance. If you want guaranteed delivery you need to email hn@ycombinator.com! I agree that keeping the threads readable is a priority, and if we have to we'll change the rules and/or standard practices. Hopefully we won't have to though.
        atherton94027 6mo ago
        Ah I appreciate the answer — I'll do that next time. Thank you for moderating btw, you've been doing a great job!
      - dang 6mo ago
        I agree. Sometimes people replace their comment text with "[deleted]" or ".", which is already abusive when the comment has replies. But this is the worst case I've seen of someone rage-editing to gut a thread. I've restored the penultimate content of each of the posts that they overwrote that way. There remain 5 (including the GP) which just say "Yeah, if I'm just gonna be down-voted [etc.]" but that is because they were posted that way and never actually said anything else—which is a whole other level of abuse in its own right. I've replied to the user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726912.

Slothrop99 6mo ago

Were they? Sounded like they stuck with some terrible old version of OpenOffice ("brokenoffice"). Users don't really care about the OS, its the apps.

WaryByDesign 6mo ago

I'm not aware of Microsoft's economic footprint in the Munich region, but I doubt it's significant. The complaints that lead to the several-reversions-to-Windows at the time, as I recall, were all around "citizen sent me X, can't open X" And those are all addressable issues, but not without significant know-how and funding.

LtWorf 6mo ago
> I'm not aware of Microsoft's economic footprint in the Munich region, but I doubt it's significant. Perhaps be aware before explaining everyone how things really are?
- WaryByDesign 6mo ago
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  - earthnail 6mo ago
    I've never seen a user replace all their comments with "[Yeah, if I'm just gonna be down-voted to oblivion regardless of my participation in the comments, good luck with your 'meaningful discussion'}" making it impossible for others to read their original comments. If this now becomes a trend I feel like there may be a need to change the rules around editing.
    - atherton94027 6mo ago
      @dang is it something on your radar? Lots of people do this on Reddit and it makes some threads unusable.
      - dang 6mo ago
        @dang doesn't work - I only saw this by chance. If you want guaranteed delivery you need to email hn@ycombinator.com! I agree that keeping the threads readable is a priority, and if we have to we'll change the rules and/or standard practices. Hopefully we won't have to though.
        atherton94027 6mo ago
        Ah I appreciate the answer — I'll do that next time. Thank you for moderating btw, you've been doing a great job!
    - dang 6mo ago
      I agree. Sometimes people replace their comment text with "[deleted]" or ".", which is already abusive when the comment has replies. But this is the worst case I've seen of someone rage-editing to gut a thread. I've restored the penultimate content of each of the posts that they overwrote that way. There remain 5 (including the GP) which just say "Yeah, if I'm just gonna be down-voted [etc.]" but that is because they were posted that way and never actually said anything else—which is a whole other level of abuse in its own right. I've replied to the user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726912.