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[-] LogicalAIs@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also, not trying to be smart or anything but Microsoft isn’t run by Bill Gates anymore. All these shady things started happening after he left. I think he allowed the Company to buy him out because he was getting too old. I’m not really sure on why he did/allowed that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 weeks ago

All these shady things started happening after he left.

Not really, they have a history of this kind of thing. They just calmed down a little between roughly 2005 and 2015.

The big antitrust case when they killed Netscape was in 1998. Bill Gate's deposition from that case is kind of interesting to watch as a historical document. It's on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90W55zhFBOuZuhgxBsjpgDy0o3ll1PSz

In that lawsuit their "Embrace Extend Extinguish" strategy in which they tried to smother open standards became public too.

They tried with Java and their J++ language too, but failed luckily. And lost a lawsuit against Sun on the way.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

Plenty of shady monopolistic things happened under Gates as well. The original Explorer antitrust lawsuit dates from the late 90s, the ACPI debacle, etc.

[-] LogicalAIs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean it's always been the modus operandi at Micro$oft from day one when they fucked over the guy who wrote DOS.

[-] mathias_freire@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know. I am a Linux enthusiast myself. After Sadya got in the position, Microsoft suddenly became to get interested in Linux, contributing to projects and even funding them. But to this day, I still do not trust them.

[-] LogicalAIs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Never trust a Big Data Partner. 🤣

[-] mathias_freire@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately Linux has tons of them nowadays. Google, Amazon, Microsoft are three of them that I know. And not just in kernel, but they also contribute in other projects in the ecosystem.

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