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0 pointsifdefdebug10y ago0 comments

> MS is doing Open Source today because it really has no choice

And that's a good thing. It shows the strength of open source.

MS is a company. Just as Google. Companies will "work towards the best interests of the movement" as long as those interests converge with theirs: make money.

AFAIK large portions of Google's core business are closed source. They are not in open source for love.

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lottin10y ago

MS has had in the past a systematic pattern of bullying, lying, cheating and a willingness to destroy social welfare by eliminating the competition and making their products the only option available in the market. This is extremely damaging. Yes every company wants to make money, but not every company will resort to that kind of sociopathic behaviour. Maybe they've changed, although I doubt it. I'm just saying - be careful.

ifdefdebugOP10y ago

In my opinion the sociopathicness of Microsoft's behavior has always been highly overrated.

jeroen10y ago

Read about DR-DOS. And then realise how long ago that is.

naasking10y ago

> Maybe they've changed, although I doubt it. I'm just saying - be careful.

Corporations aren't people where past behaviour predicts future behaviour. If MS's original executives are all gone, the fact that MS is behaving differently isn't surprising at all.

manigandham10y ago

Companies are not people and describing them as "sociopathic" is meaningless.

> eliminating the competition and making their products the only option available in the market.

This is business and this is how you win.

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