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by carapace 1456 days ago
Look I'm not trying to defend "fartcannon" per se, but I gotta point out that if there's any bitterness here it's due to Microsoft's past actions. People who are suspicious of MS have good reasons.

I'm sure if some other company donated $0.5M to FOSS maintainers the negativity would be greatly muted or even absent.
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fartcannon 1456 days ago
Thanks!

Microsoft uses these platforms to advertise/promote. I don't like it. Advertising and PR are pollution. If Coca-Cola PR or big oil or the tobacco industry promoted on this website, I'd have a similar distaste for it.

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carapace 1456 days ago
Cheers. Your rhetorical style is a little rough perhaps, but you're not wrong.

When you compared the payments to "blood money" I was like "Oh my", but then I recalled an article that points out that Bill Gates knew Epstein "decades prior to 2011" ( https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/t... ) and I throw up my hands (and my breakfast.) What a world we live in, eh?

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