I agree. Someone already put links showing how bad Jobs and Gates were earlier in this thread.
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SoJB@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoBill Gates, a decent person? LMAO is OP literally a kid or something.
Americans are the most propagandized people in the world and simultaneously genuinely believe they are not propagandized, it’s incredible.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
But you see he invest 0.1% of their money to save some people in the world, sometimes. He is so generous.
curry@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It’s incredle how public perceptions change, huh? Bill Gates was considered the devil back when MS was steamrolling against open source software.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
MS’s patent protection racket and monopoly practices continue. They have had no conversion, they are just adapting. Buying GitHub and LinkedIn to stay relevant. WSL and VSCode are to slow the bleed of developers away from their platform and tools. Azure Linux is because they have to. They are under pressure by the market and because all the bright young things coming in will all want Linux. They are still a closed source company trying to get people stuck into their webs and paying.
curry@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Agreed, the foss-friendly image is just a facade. MS is never going to commit to open source as it directly threatens their bloodline.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
They should be made to open Office. Too much is in those formats for a for profit company to own the reference implementation. Let alone for that reference implementation to be closed.
Reading about this “standard” makes me angry every time. en.wikipedia.org/…/Standardization_of_Office_Open…
Google and Apple and Amazon and Facebook are all tech bastards too. But Microsoft has not gone away or been solved.