Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoMS’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.
curry@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
If I had a dime for every time I had to struggle because of subtle rendering changes between libreoffice and ms office over a single ooxml doc…
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Your not meant to be able to render it outside of MS software. The whole ISO thing was high level game to make a monoply look like a standard. It’s a super long standard with closed binary bit that were meant to be temporary. It only got through at due to outside corruption. Governments are as much at fault as MS for being a sleep at the wheel of stopping monopolies and keep the market functional. ISO is broken if something can be a standard where the reference implementation is closed, let alone have any closed bits.