• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I dunno. I feel like they are like the cable company now. They will jus sit there twiddling their nipples while we are all fucked.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      6 days ago

      I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.

      Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.

      They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.

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        6 days ago

        On a personal basis that works, but they are so corporately entrenched that their products getting shitier matters quite little.

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          6 days ago

          Seriously this, it would take something like the PCI or SOX declaring Windows outside of compliance for Microsoft to die from bad business decisions in the US. Although German gov switching to Linux starts treading a path through

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          What could easily happen is they break a GPL license, then take it to the supreme court, so they can kneecap GNU licensed projects by making the mandate of making every change public unenforceable.

          (The EU should just leave the Berne convention, then make it’s own decisions on copyright, including stripping monopolies like MS and Disney of copyright protections.)

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      6 days ago

      They will be fine. They are second most valuable company in the world. They have money to throw around and their source of income still seem inexhaustible. A few new Linux users won’t even make a dent.

      Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s the truth no matter what we are wishing for.