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Post #Aivw1dpuyIcc8Az3Ng by [email protected] |
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As the old saying goes, "When someone tells you who they are and you get f… |
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Post #Aivw1dx0XwIEUAIiQq by [email protected] |
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Microsoft is, was, always has been, and always will be a rotten company. At eve… |
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Post #Aivw1eIdFXafZEPz8a by [email protected] |
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The nepo-baby enlisted his pal, Paul Allen (whom he'd later rip off for bil… |
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Post #Aivw1fAW1CgyGLd17o by [email protected] |
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Gates didn't become one of the richest people on earth simply by emerging f… |
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Post #Aivw1fWUhUGzMVuZNo by [email protected] |
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IBM's delaying tactic paid off. When Reagan took the White House, he let IB… |
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Post #Aivw1fspMS8aTmMPC4 by [email protected] |
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IBM didn't hire Gates and Allen to provide it with DOS because it was incap… |
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Post #Aivw1gES43R1YqTfto by [email protected] |
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These were customers Microsoft could play off on each other, ensuring that ever… |
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Post #Aivw1gZimyRscoQf3I by [email protected] |
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The IBM PC story teaches us two things: stronger antitrust enforcement spurs in… |
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Post #Aivw1hEqK5LGgLfV9E by [email protected] |
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(Microsoft's antitrust ordeal ended after GW Bush stole the 2000 election a… |
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Post #Aivw1hdIr8uLuD72H2 by [email protected] |
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It has succeeded on all three counts. Much of Microsoft's enduring power co… |
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Post #Aivw1hyZa3vCyB41QW by [email protected] |
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Microsoft's secret sauce is *impunity*. The PC companies that bundle Window… |
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Post #Aivw1iKYGLVE4LLZgW by [email protected] |
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Microsoft doesn't have to care if you hate it because, for the most part, i… |
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Post #Aivw1igAxwnf9PSqOG by [email protected] |
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This rarified position has afforded Microsoft enormous freedom to roll out hare… |
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Post #Aivw1j29eENgFZkOeG by [email protected] |
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It wasn't just Office; Microsoft's OSes have harbored festering swamps … |
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Post #Aivw1jNmLpg7KdrfM0 by [email protected] |
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Even if you take them at their word here, that's still no excuse. Microsoft… |
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Post #Aivw1jjP3QyYPhyw3k by [email protected] |
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There's an implicit bargain that every monopolist makes: allow me to domina… |
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Post #Aivw1k79d7yTbN5u52 by [email protected] |
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But monopolists *always* violate this bargain. When faced with the decision to … |
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Post #Aivw1kUuCoyOn2Cs6K by [email protected] |
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That's how Google can piss away $80b on a stock buyback and fire 12,000 tec… |
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Post #Aivw1lgHnzfeScXTTk by [email protected] |
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When the company moved Office to the cloud, it added "analytics" that… |
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Post #Aivw1nnRwKab1PuDvE by [email protected] |
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Leave aside how creepy, gross and exploitative this is - it's also *incredi… |
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Post #Aivw1ofggfyTjdHXSi by [email protected] |
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Or at least, not until now. Microsoft recently announced a product called "… |
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Post #Aivw1pSbkn6eBMAbiK by [email protected] |
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Naturally, this system - which Microsoft billed as ultra-secure - was wildly *i… |
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Post #Aivw1q1heJB9wCadPs by [email protected] |
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The company argued that allowing public scrutiny of code would be a disaster be… |
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Post #Aivw1qYffjYBaS0xns by [email protected] |
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The crux of that method: we are so good at bullshiting ourselves into thinking … |
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Post #Aivw1r5HiTddDbH0dc by [email protected] |
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And yet, Microsoft - whose made more widely and consequentially exploited softw… |
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Post #Aivw1rkPFaX1H8VqjY by [email protected] |
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Access to source code isn't sufficient to make software secure - nothing ab… |
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Post #Aivw1sPAo18pJZaPHE by [email protected] |
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When it comes to secure code, transparency is an essential, but it's not a … |
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Post #Aivw1t4IL82DN6pFNA by [email protected] |
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And also the most prominent example of the disgusting tax cheats practiced by r… |
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Post #Aivw1txb1WGq8chPZQ by [email protected] |
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But Ballmer is an angel compared to his boss, Bill Gates, last seen some paragr… |
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Post #Aivw1uUZ2wdrms7jxQ by [email protected] |
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The Gates Foundation (and Gates personally) invented vaccine apartheid, helped … |
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Post #Aivw1v9KbNFfpJCIV6 by [email protected] |
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The Gates Foundation wants us to think of it as malaria-fighting heroes, but th… |
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Post #Aivw1vpA5qiDv2lhhY by [email protected] |
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(On a personal level, Gates is also a serial sexual abuser who harassed multipl… |
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Post #Aivw1wVhXgjw2yfg0W by [email protected] |
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This is true of every division, from cloud computing:https://pluralistic.net/20… |
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Post #Aivw1xGUjiAcO6Z2wa by [email protected] |
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They lied:https://80.lv/articles/qa-workers-contracted-by-microsoft-say-they-we… |
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Post #Aivw1xn6mSG41Fp5mK by [email protected] |
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Foreign spies hacked Solarwinds and accessed a variety of US federal agencies, … |
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Post #Aivw1ySaIFR25tEDQW by [email protected] |
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This was a lie. As Renee Dudley and Doris Burke reported for *Propublica*, the … |
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Post #Aivw1z7hpMKQ9QT3WS by [email protected] |
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The single most consequential cyberattack on the US government was only possibl… |
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Post #Aivw1zefqmhRnftNuS by [email protected] |
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Despite all the reasons to mistrust this promise, the company is hoping Congres… |
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Post #Aivw20BzqtM3T1Tzqi by [email protected] |
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You know what? I bet they'll sell this lie. It won't be the first time … |
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Post #Aivw212ShpK25k1tcu by [email protected] |
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On June 20, I'll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go F… |
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Post #AixzIOZ9giKrs8k9U8 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic I know that even a 40 post megathread isn't enough to document… |
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Post #AiygzVsYfcih2AcqcC by [email protected] |
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@merc @pluralistic isn't vscode OSS?nevermind, the article makes some point… |
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Post #Aiyh1MnDQJmFQu0hkm by [email protected] |
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@merc @pluralistic They do make a damn good editor though. I think about every … |
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Post #Aiyh1Mtx1HAHlnA5Fg by [email protected] |
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@n3wjack @merc @pluralistic and sublime was proprietary |
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Post #AiyniuL1B7jveGxyk4 by [email protected] |
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@n3wjack @merc @pluralistic Well, that editor has the best VIM mode I've ev… |
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Post #Aiyq0RNZmijmxIeQVM by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic AIDS vaccine? How's that supposed to work? |
