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Can’t wait to read the blogpost of what have truly happened and motivated this person to expose M$ like this

by Alifatisk 5mo ago

SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
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- pluc 5mo ago
  Yeah man we've been saying negative things about them for like 40 years must we constantly dwell on what they do wrong? It's time we find positive angles
  - stackghost 5mo ago
    >Yeah man we've been saying negative things about them for like 40 years Well gee, I wonder why people have been saying negative things about them for so long? Perhaps if it's been that long there's a kernel of truth to the matter. Perhaps they're a shitty company who does shitty things selling shitty products.
  - treyd 5mo ago
    They keep doing negative things that influence the industry and infringe upon the freedoms of hundreds of millions of people. Yes we should keep dwelling on that.
    - dijit 5mo ago
      I read the parent as sarcastic. Since the mentioned the continued negative things they do.
  - Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
    Positive HN-appropriate angle: they're very financially successful and have been for 40 years.
- enopod_ 5mo ago
  Micro$lop it is from now on :)
- Brian_K_White 5mo ago
  But nothing has changed. It's fair to say it's silly, jeuvenile, but it's also fair to say MS deserve absolutely no normal respect you would pay a turd. Maybe the poster actually is 12 and we all have a right to be 12 for a while. There's always a new generation discovering today what we discovered 30 years ago.
  - naasking 5mo ago
    Nothing has changed? Microsoft is a huge open source contributor now, produced one of the largest open source ecosystems in use (.NET) and provides free access to the biggest open source software repositories (GitHub). Sorry to say, but believing nothing with MS has changed is deranged.
    - Brian_K_White 5mo ago
      Nothing has changed except that it's even worse now than before, and the venue or arena changes every few years (os to developer tools to office to cloud etc). vscode or .net core or whatever you think is so valuable does not make MS your friend any more than giving you free IE did. Come the fuck on. It is beyond ignorant to try to make this argument. (or it's perfectly consistent with having a financial interest) I guess if there are always new 20 year olds just discovering something, that must mean there are also always new 15 year olds that haven't discovered it yet, and 80 year olds that have gone Dawkins and lost what they had, and the just plain ignorant or unobservant with no real excuse.
      - naasking 5mo ago
        No real open source contributor thinks any corporation is "their friend", whatever that means. And yet, it is undeniably true that being a Linux foundation member and contributor, producing and maintaining one of the largest programming language ecosystem and runtimes currently in use, and running the largest open source friendly source code repositories for free, would have been unthinkable under Balmer or Gates' Microsoft, and if you think otherwise, you should look in the mirror for that ignorance you mentioned.
    - 5mo ago
- nizbit 5mo ago
  Micro$lop it is!
- itsthecourier 5mo ago
  even Bill Gates bailed out of M$ https://finbold.com/bill-gates-foundation-fully-dumps-its-microsoft-msft-stake/ https://finbold.com/bill-gates-foundation-fully-dumps-its-mi...
  - bananamogul 5mo ago
    He personally still owns 100m shares (per your article) and has not bailed out. The B&MG foundation sold their remaining 7.7m shares.
- supern0va 5mo ago
  I hear you. But, I must also admit that reading "M$" in public discourse sure makes me nostalgic for better days on the internet.
- bombcar 5mo ago
  From my basement in Wyoming, I stab at thee!

Can’t wait to read the blogpost of what have truly happened and motivated this person to expose M$ like this

SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago

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pluc 5mo ago
Yeah man we've been saying negative things about them for like 40 years must we constantly dwell on what they do wrong? It's time we find positive angles
- stackghost 5mo ago
  >Yeah man we've been saying negative things about them for like 40 years Well gee, I wonder why people have been saying negative things about them for so long? Perhaps if it's been that long there's a kernel of truth to the matter. Perhaps they're a shitty company who does shitty things selling shitty products.
- treyd 5mo ago
  They keep doing negative things that influence the industry and infringe upon the freedoms of hundreds of millions of people. Yes we should keep dwelling on that.
  - dijit 5mo ago
    I read the parent as sarcastic. Since the mentioned the continued negative things they do.
- Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
  Positive HN-appropriate angle: they're very financially successful and have been for 40 years.
enopod_ 5mo ago
Micro$lop it is from now on :)
Brian_K_White 5mo ago
But nothing has changed. It's fair to say it's silly, jeuvenile, but it's also fair to say MS deserve absolutely no normal respect you would pay a turd. Maybe the poster actually is 12 and we all have a right to be 12 for a while. There's always a new generation discovering today what we discovered 30 years ago.
- naasking 5mo ago
  Nothing has changed? Microsoft is a huge open source contributor now, produced one of the largest open source ecosystems in use (.NET) and provides free access to the biggest open source software repositories (GitHub). Sorry to say, but believing nothing with MS has changed is deranged.
  - Brian_K_White 5mo ago
    Nothing has changed except that it's even worse now than before, and the venue or arena changes every few years (os to developer tools to office to cloud etc). vscode or .net core or whatever you think is so valuable does not make MS your friend any more than giving you free IE did. Come the fuck on. It is beyond ignorant to try to make this argument. (or it's perfectly consistent with having a financial interest) I guess if there are always new 20 year olds just discovering something, that must mean there are also always new 15 year olds that haven't discovered it yet, and 80 year olds that have gone Dawkins and lost what they had, and the just plain ignorant or unobservant with no real excuse.
    - naasking 5mo ago
      No real open source contributor thinks any corporation is "their friend", whatever that means. And yet, it is undeniably true that being a Linux foundation member and contributor, producing and maintaining one of the largest programming language ecosystem and runtimes currently in use, and running the largest open source friendly source code repositories for free, would have been unthinkable under Balmer or Gates' Microsoft, and if you think otherwise, you should look in the mirror for that ignorance you mentioned.
  - 5mo ago
nizbit 5mo ago
Micro$lop it is!
itsthecourier 5mo ago
even Bill Gates bailed out of M$ https://finbold.com/bill-gates-foundation-fully-dumps-its-microsoft-msft-stake/ https://finbold.com/bill-gates-foundation-fully-dumps-its-mi...
- bananamogul 5mo ago
  He personally still owns 100m shares (per your article) and has not bailed out. The B&MG foundation sold their remaining 7.7m shares.
supern0va 5mo ago
I hear you. But, I must also admit that reading "M$" in public discourse sure makes me nostalgic for better days on the internet.
bombcar 5mo ago
From my basement in Wyoming, I stab at thee!