[ryebreadistasty]

I disagree. Anything a corporation does they do because it directly benefits them, in this case they get more people moving close to their HQ and it's good publicity. In the case of their Linux support it's death by a thousand paper cuts. Pretty simple.

[amf12]

> I disagree. Anything a corporation does they do because it directly benefits them,

I don't understand why people want corporations to behave like non-profits. It's a corporation whose sole aim is make profit. But that doesn't mean they can't do something for goodwill that actually benefits the community.

> In the case of their Linux support it's death by a thousand paper cuts.

What does this have anything to do with them doing something good for the community?

[ryebreadistasty]

>I don't understand why people want corporations to behave like non-profits. It's a corporation whose sole aim is make profit. But that doesn't mean they can't do something for goodwill that actually benefits the community.

Because people act like they're altruistic and nice when the reality is that they're not. I'm not gonna suck your dick because you pulled a PR stunt, I don't swing that way.

>What does this have anything to do with them doing something good for the community?

On the surface level more support for linux is good thing, but like all corporate-developed software it eventually becomes bloated and unstable and dies a slow death.

[kerng]

Living in Redmond and Bellevue is pretty nice. So I disagree, Microsoft turned nothing into something.

Your Linux comment seems unrelated.

[matte_black]

Are selfless acts the only possible good acts?