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by encom 1961 days ago
>Microsoft is a completely different company than it was even just 5 or 10 years ago.

Counterpoint: No they aren't. Counting Git repos is totally nonsensical, and open sourcing their terminal is a meaningless gesture, but I guess that's enough to fool some people.

Microsoft has a very, very long history of being a shitty company. Fucking over DR DOS, fucking over Stac, war profiteering, patent trolling, up to the privacy dumpster fire that is Windows 10. That's just off the top of my head. And I've been around for all of it, so excuse me if I just don't fawn over Microsoft suddenly claiming to be the good guys now. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose.