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There isn't a brand in the whole world with such negative aura than microsoft.
by Thiz 13y ago
There isn't a brand in the whole world with such negative aura than microsoft.
- bsullivan01 13y agowhat world is that? I use Windows and I'm extremely happy. I know what MS dd but then I know what Apple is doing, what Google etc are doing and what they could do if they were in Microsoft's shoes.
- outside1234 13y agoYou mean the Hacker News world, right?
- scholia 13y agoThe sort of booby who thinks Microsoft is evil has obviously never heard of Enron, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, BP etc etc. It's perfectly fine to use children as slave labor, destroy the environment or actually kill people (eg Dow in Bhopal). None of these is anything like as bad as paying American workers to write useful software and sell it.
- Peaker 13y agoYour point would come across better if you had mentioned monopolizing markets illegally and other MS actions rather than the silly straw man there.
- scholia 13y agoStraw man? You think these examples are not literally true? Not sure if you have a clue what Microsoft actually did more than 15 years ago, but if you think it was worse than using children as slave labor, destroying swathes of the environment or killing people then I have pity on your soul....
- Peaker 13y agoNo, I don't think what MS did is worse. But "writing useful software" was not the reason they were hated. That's the strawman, and it detracts from your argument.
- scholia 13y agoPoint taken, but it seems to me the thing that open source fanboys are actually complaining about. Almost none of them knows what Microsoft is supposed to have done.
- Peaker 13y agoSome worse things: Microsoft's OEM deals to throw out Netscape. Bundling IE with their monopolistic OS to kill Netscape Disallowing OEMs to sell computers with any OS but Windows (or demanding 3x the price for Windows licenses). Killing DR-DOS by having Windows refuse to start if it detects DR-DOS. Funding and encouraging SCO's baseless lawsuit to create FUD around Linux. And various other scandals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
- scholia 13y agoNone of which ranks up there with killing people, or mass financial fraud, even if they were true. Which several of them are not.
- Peaker 13y agoI agree, but they are pretty bad. My point was specifically about underplaying their illegal and immoral practices as "building useful software" which is not conductive to useful discussion. Which ones do you believe aren't true?
- outside1234 13y agoYou mean like Google is now with search (let's be real) and how they are tying their products into search (which they are).
- chollida1 13y ago> There isn't a brand in the whole world with such negative aura than microsoft. Which of course might be right for you, but for the rest of the world is provably flat out wrong:) http://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/ http://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/ http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2012 http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/global-500-2012