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It's kind of funny in a depressing way how everyone seems to think it's perfectly okay for MS to violate the YouTube API's TOS just because Google doesn't want
by kyrias 13y ago
It's kind of funny in a depressing way how everyone seems to think it's perfectly okay for MS to violate the YouTube API's TOS just because Google doesn't want to make an official app.
- gillianseed 13y agoBy 'everyone' you mean the usual Microsoft zelots like recoiledsnake and cooldeal?
- CloudNine 13y ago>By 'everyone' you mean the usual Microsoft zelots like recoiledsnake and cooldeal? Yes, lets lynch and ban the last couple of commenters on HN who don't hate 'M$' so that we can sip coffee at Google IO while using Macbooks to flag Surface Pro review stories and vote up Ruby and Go posts in peace.
- gillianseed 13y agoI don't hate Microsoft, nor do I adore Google, but yes recoiledsnake and cooldeal are well known Microsoft zelots. They will defend Microsoft at every turn and they will attack Google in every comment they make about them. Their posting history is very desciptive.
- lawdawg 13y agoSave your breath, CloudNine is one of those Microsoft zealots as well.
- CloudNine 13y agoThere are a bunch of other kinds of fans on here. Offhand I can list mtgx, rbanffy(who mentions he hates Microsoft in his HN profile page), or Toshio and lots of iOS fans and Google fans and employees and nobody seems to get bothered by them but somehow it's not okay for Microsoft fans to post on here?
- xtracto 13y agoAaahh these flamewars bring me back memories of alt.linux.advocacy It is funny to read how quickly a news.ycombinator discussion degenerates when talking about Google, Microsoft or Apple.
- rbanffy 13y agoI liked the TRS-80 vs. Apple II ones better. This shit gets old.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoYou mean the Trash-80 and the Crapple II? :] What's funny is that in my experience, these denigrating terms came from each system's users, not from "the opposing tribe." At my school we used the TRS-80, and constantly bemoaned its (many) faults, and dreamed of having Apple IIs ... and then one time we went to a computer show and met some kids from another school which used Apple IIs—who told us how much they hated their Crapples and how they wished they had TRS-80s... ><
- joyeuse6701 13y agonot to be a grammar zealot but isn't 'zelot' spelled 'zealot'? Just bringing it up since the repliers of this thread keep using it.
- ajross 13y agoAlso the iOS fan base in this context. Enemy of my enemy and all that. It's fun being old sometimes -- you get to watch people switch "sides" in these silly arguments over years and decades.
- bjourne 13y agoAs a frequent user for rtmpdump, youtube-dl, libdvdcss and adblock plus thinking otherwise would be kind of hypocritical dont you think? Hell, if you've ever blocked a popup then most likely, you too are an evil TOS violator.
- kyrias 13y agoGive me one example of a website that I might be visiting who's TOS says that you can't block the ads.
- ankitml 13y agoyou mean to say that demanding "kill the app immediately" is a nice, goody boy demand from google?